To encourage investment in communities left behind by recent economic growth and the energy transition, this adder increases the value of a project’s underlying tax credits – i.e. the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) or Production Tax Credit (PTC) – by 10% if the project is built in a qualifying location. Communities that qualify include those historically reliant on fossil fuels for employment, wages, or tax revenue. In the first year after this adder was enacted, energy communities saw advanced energy investment rise by $2.4 billion per month on average, whereas communities that didn’t qualify only saw investment increase by $1 billion per month.
Wildcats Solar
- Status: In Construction
- Location: Wise County, VA
- Congressional District: Virginia 9th
- Technology: Solar
- Relevant Tax Provisions:
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Communities Adder (EC)
- Fast Facts:
- Built on the site of the former Indian Creek Surface Mine outside of Pound, Virginia, the Wildcats solar project will generate 10 megawatts of affordable electricity once complete.
- During construction, this project will create over 80 good-paying jobs.
- Over the lifetime of the facility, Wildcats will generate over $2 million in economic benefits for the locality and region, including $800,000 in tax revenue for Wise County.
Eldorado Solar
- Status: Operational
- Location: Saline County, IL
- Congressional District: Illinois 12th
- Technology: Solar
- Relevant Tax Provisions:
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Community Adder (EC)
- Fast Facts:
- At approximately 300 megawatts, the complete Eldorado Solar project will generate enough electricity to power approximately 56,000 Illinois homes each year.
- During construction, this project produced over 500 full-time jobs.
- Over the lifetime of the project, Eldorado Solar will generate $42 million in local tax revenue, including $23 million for area schools.
Comanche Long-Duration Energy Storage
- Status: Project Announced
- Location: Pueblo, CO (Pueblo County)
- Congressional District: Colorado 3rd
- Technology: Long-Duration Energy Storage
- Relevant Tax Provision(s):
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Communities Adder (EC)
- Domestic Content Adder
- Fast Facts:
- Form Energy’s innovative 100-hour iron-air batteries will provide much-needed, low-cost, reliable energy as Pueblo retires its Comanche coal plant.
- The Pueblo facility will generate 10 MW / 1,000 MWh of multi-day energy storage to help meet Colorado’s growing energy needs.
- This project was in part enabled by the Investment Tax Credit and the Energy Community bonus credit.
Condor Energy Storage
- Status: Operational
- Location: San Bernadino County, CA
- Congressional District: California 39th
- Technologies: Solar and Storage
- Relevant Tax Provisions:
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Transferability
- Energy Communities Adder (EC)
- Fast Facts:
- Condor Energy Storage is a 200 MW / 800 MWh solar + storage project powering 150,000 homes in San Bernadino County.
- Over the course of the project’s lifetime, Condor will provide an estimated $25 million in property tax revenue.
- Condor will provide much-needed support to the grid during peak demand using state-of-the-art batteries employing skilled American workers.
Aurelius Solar
- Status: Operational
- Location (County / City): Aurelius, NY (Cayuga County)
- Congressional District: New York 24th
- Technology(s): Solar
- Relevant Tax Provision(s):
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Communities Adder
- Transferability
- Fast Facts:
- Producing 29 megawatts of electricity, this solar farm is the combination of four small-scale adjacent projects. The project provides low-cost electricity to the regional grid and bill credits to thousands of homes and small businesses in the area, helping cut electric bills for subscribers.
- Harnessing transferability, developers were able to unlock greater private capital financing, enabling construction of this project.
- Aurelius Solar was built on remediated land previously contaminated by a power generating facility in the 1960’s. As a result, project developers were able to harness the Energy Communities Adder as a result to help support development.
Vandalia
- Status: Operational
- Location: Vandalia, IL (Fayette County)
- Congressional District: Illinois 15th
- Technology: Solar
- Relevant Tax Provision(s):
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Communities Adder
- Transferability
- Fast Facts:
- This project is generating 2 megawatts of electricity, which will be used to help power operations at a nearby data center. By offsetting that load, this project will help reduce strain on the grid and any costs that utility customers might otherwise have to pay.
- Harnessing transferability, developers were able to unlock greater private capital financing, facilitating construction of this project.
- During peak construction, this project created eight new jobs in the community as well as added economic impacts through the purchase of local goods and services.
Junction Energy Storage
- Status: In Construction
- Location (County / City): Junction, TX (Kimble County)
- Congressional District: Texas 11th
- Technology(s): Energy Storage
- Relevant Tax Provision(s):
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Energy Communities Adder
- Transferability
- Fast Facts:
- When complete, the 9.9-megawatt Junction Battery Energy Storage project will help support grid stability and the timed delivery of power to match the demand of thousands of households, avoiding grid congestion and lowering energy costs.
- Harnessing transferability, developers were able to unlock greater private capital financing to facilitate construction of this project.
- In addition to utilizing local goods and services, during peak construction this project created approximately 40 good-paying local jobs.
Michigan DNR Solar
- Status: Operational
- Location: Holland State Park; PJ Hoffmaster State Park; Fort Custer; Allegan County
- Congressional District: Michigan 4th
- Technology: Rooftop Solar, Electric Vehicle Charging
- Relevant Tax Provision:
- Investment Tax Credit
- Transferability
- Energy Communities Bonus Credit
- Fast Facts:
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources has deployed rooftop solar and electric vehicle charging across several state parks using local labor for mechanical and directional boring installations.
- Infrastructure investments to the district totaled roughly $1.5 million in energy producing assets.
- These projects produce roughly 650,000 kilowatt-hours of energy annually, enough to power the park operations in these facilities.