The following is a contributed article by Shelley Hudson Robbins, a project director at Clean Energy Group.
Without question, the Inflation Reduction Act is a stunning piece of legislation loaded with billions of dollars available to address more than a century of energy inequity. However, it has a major flaw in one of its most popular provisions – the residential tax credit for solar and battery storage. Low-income homeowners often do not have a tax liability and cannot access this 30% tax credit. They are left out of the clean energy transition, while their wealthier neighbors are able to use the tax credit to reduce both energy bills and tax liability. This is neither just nor equitable.
But there may be one avenue available that could add solar and battery storage to a certain category of low-income single-family…