Reunion's CEO shares several updates — from a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer, to news of our marketplace crossing $4 billion in tax credit opportunities.
January 22, 2024
Welcome to the new year and our Q1 2024 newsletter.
The transferable tax credit market is accelerating quickly, and so is Reunion. We have several updates we'd love to share you — from a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer, to news of our marketplace crossing $4 billion in tax credit opportunities.
Tax credit transfers will drive a significant increase in clean energy deployment in 2024, and we look forward to keeping you up to date!
Andy Moon, CEO
Reunion celebrated the new year by facilitating an innovative tax credit transfer from a portfolio of commercial rooftop solar installations. The transaction represents the promise of transferability: enabling clean energy projects that have historically struggled to attract financing.
We recently unveiled version 2.0 of our 100-page transferable tax credit handbook, after receiving fantastic feedback from the market on our initial release.
Our latest edition includes an overview of the IRA's 11 transferable tax credits as well as comments on the latest Treasury guidance.
In January, our team published our inaugural pricing review and outlook, based on our transactional experience and hundreds of conversations with tax credit buyers and sellers. In the article, we share pricing observations from 2023 and predictions for 2024.
Our marketplace has grown rapidly since our launch in June 2023. We now have over $4B of tax credits available across solar, wind, battery storage, advanced manufacturing, and other clean energy technologies.
Our team continues to grow! We have several open positions available and would love your help finding great folks.
You can catch our latest insights and news on LinkedIn. We hope you’ll follow us and join the conversation.
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The market for transferable tax credits has gained momentum heading into Q4, as many buyers want to get their first deals done in the 2023 tax year. We expect the volume of deals to increase substantially as we reach the end of the year.
In the latest edition of 10 Questions With Reunion, Brian Murphy of EY, Adam Kobos of Troutman Pepper, and our CEO, Andy Moon, discuss what they are seeing in transferable tax credit transactions.
The wide-ranging discussion covers topics of interest to tax credit buyers including pricing, using credits to offset estimated tax payments, timing of the IRS portal, and how to mitigate project risks.
Watch the full episode here.
Reunion is headed to New York on October 22-25 to attend the Tax Executives Institute (TEI) Annual Conference. Reunion CEO Andy Moon will be speaking on a panel about tax credit transfers. If you’d like to meet and discuss tax credit transfers while we are in New York, please schedule a meeting with us.
Best of luck to everyone closing out the quarter!
Team Reunion
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In July, we announced Reunion’s digital marketplace, with over $1 billion in near-term tax credits from clean energy projects such as wind, solar, battery storage, and biogas. Since then, the supply of tax credits on our platform has grown to over $2 billion!
Watch our marketplace announcement to learn more.
If you are a corporate buyer looking to purchase tax credits, please sign up to get access to the platform and take a look at our project portfolio. In addition to the largest inventory of marketable tax credits, we provide transactional support with deal structuring, insurance, and due diligence. Early tax credit transfer transactions are novel and complex, and we are here to answer your questions.
For project developers, please contact us to add your projects to our marketplace. All projects are listed in a way that protects the confidentiality of the sponsor, the project, and project counterparties. There is no obligation or exclusivity to listing a project. A seller portal will be released shortly that will allow you to easily add, edit, or remove projects from the marketplace.
Our founding team has a combined 40+ years of experience in clean energy finance, and we are sharing real-time market observations via our website and our LinkedIn page. Recent highlights:
Billy Lee appeared on the Norton Rose podcast with Bank of America, JP Morgan, and others; it was covered in the June Project Finance newswire, and a transcript was published here.
Andy Moon, Co-Founder and CEO, appeared on a panel discussion with Perkins Coie and Novogradac to do a deep dive into Treasury's guidance on tax credit transfers.
Andy Moon appeared on a panel with JP Morgan, Marathon Capital, and others in June at the Norton Rose Energy Finance conference; please keep an eye out for the August Project Finance newswire for a transcript.
The Treasury Department released Proposed Regulations for tax credit transfers on June 14, and the clean energy industry breathed a collective sigh of relief. Uncertainty around the timing and the contents of Treasury guidance has been a hindrance to moving tax credit deals forward. Treasury clearly laid out the mechanism for tax credit transfers, and confirmed several important economic points (e.g., tax credits purchased at a discount will not be subject to tax on the discounted amount; tax credits can be used to offset estimated quarterly tax payments).
Reunion has been pleased with the uptick in activity from both buyers and sellers since June 14. Please let us know if we can help your organization purchase or sell a tax credit, or if we can collaborate on furthering the market for clean energy tax credits.
Have a great rest of the summer!
Jordan Tamchin, Executive Vice President and leader of the Tax Insurance Practice at CAC Specialty, joins our Q3 buyer office hours on Thursday, September 5th at 2:00pm ET.
This due diligence checklist and documentation guide gives tax credit buyers, sellers, and their respective advisors a set of shared expectations on the required analysis and documentation for §48 investment tax credits.
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