• Siting, transmission and interconnection issues related to renewable energy production on public lands. Financial incentives for renewable energy.

Duration: September 22, 2009 to October 31, 2011

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

Spending: about $410,000 (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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Interior - Dept of (DOI),, Energy - Dept of, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of the Vice President of the United States,, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Treasury - Dept of, Office of the Vice President of the United States

Related Foreign Entities: Solar Millennium AG (Erlangen D-91052, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 70%; Man Ferrostaal AG (Essen D-45128, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 30%