• Tax, energy, and evironmental issues affecting the solar industry; maintenance of Title XVII - DOE Loan Guarantee Program, H.R. 1, Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011; FY 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations; Energy bill considerations such as a Clean Energy Deployment Administration and Clean Energy Standard.

Duration: February 15, 2010 to July 13, 2011

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $290,000 (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 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Defense - Dept of (DOD), U.S. Senate,, Energy - Dept of, Treasury - Dept of