• S. 1868 / H.R. 4649, Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2017 (would expand the renewable energy investment tax credit (ITC) to cover energy storage systems).
• Seeking supportive communication with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Commerce for exempting 72-cell solar panels from Sec. 201 safeguard tariffs.
• Revision of Bureau of Land Management's rents and bonds rule for solar siting/permitting; revision of Bureau of Land Management's Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.
• S. 2776 / HR 4476 PURPA Modernization Act (Legislation that would significantly alter the qualified facilities provisions of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.); revision of the Solicitor of the Interior's opinion on the incidental take provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
• The Department of Energy's effort to prevent coal and nuclear power plant closures.

Duration: September 13, 2013 to September 30, 2018

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Animals, Energy/Nuclear, Budget/Appropriations, Environmental/Superfund, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Economics/Economic Development, Natural Resources, Utilities, Defense, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Government Issues

Spending: about $2,020,000 (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 2013: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Senate,, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Affiliated organizations: ​Recurrent Energy Dev. Holding LLC; Recurrent Energy Dev. Holding LLC

Related Foreign Entities: Canadian Solar Inc. (Guelph, CAN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; Sharp Corporation (Osaka, JPN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%