• Section 201 investigation

Duration: October 18, 2017 to August 30, 2018

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $470,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2017: Executive Office of the President (EOP), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Energy - Dept of, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, State - Dept of (DOS), Treasury - Dept of, Labor - Dept of (DOL)

Affiliated organizations: 174 Power Global Corporation; 8minutenergy Renewables LLC; Blattner Energy, Inc.; Cypress Creek Renewables; EDF Renewable Energy; E.ON North America; NRG Energy, Inc.; Recurrent Energy, LLC; Southern Current; sPower; Swinerton Renewables; Tradewind Energy

Related Foreign Entities: EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris, FRA); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; E.ON SE (Essen, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; Hanwha Group (Seoul, KOR); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%