Energy & Environmental Project: Finance Law & Taxation

Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation authored by Andrea Kramer&Peter Fusaro: New Investment Techniques provides practitioners with a useful and comprehensive discussion of energy and environmental project finance as it is developing and where it is going in light of new legal and tax rules. This is the first time that internationally recognized lawyers and economists share their knowledge, expertise, and insights in this important and growing industry. Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation examines cutting edge techniques and analyses the recent tax and legal developments coming out of Washington, all of which are revolutionizing the investment in and financing of energy and environmental projects.

Written for practitioners and laymen alike, Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation arms the reader with crucial knowledge about structuring and financing conventional, renewable, green financing, and alternative energy projects. It addresses carbon financing, green power, and traditional and new technologies, including nuclear power, wind, photovoltaic, solar, geothermal, biomass, and the new generation of nuclear power. This book also addresses the risks involved in structuring and financing these new technologies; ways to hedge these risks; and how to monetize the tax credits available for renewable energy projects.

Features

•   The only comprehensive book in the field of environmental attributes, and renewables and alternative energy project finance that serves as an easy reference guide for these issues in ways that both casual readers and experts can understand
•   An up-to-date resource that incorporates energy and environmental legislation and legislative proposals for the first half of 2009 which relate to conventional, renewable, and alternative energy projects
•   This book addresses the special issues and unique challenges faced by participants in environmental, renewable, and alternative energy project finance, focusing on the legal and tax hurdles that must be jumped to have a technically and economically viable project financing
•   Written and edited by experienced industry experts in the field