Energy efficiencies, renewables, and decarbonization can translate into significant cashflow and funding savings.

A trusted advisor can help you benefit from energy efficiency and renewable credits and deductions, including Energy Efficiency Deduction (Section 179D), Residential Home Credit (Section 45L), and Clean Energy Investment Tax Credit (Section 48).

Eide Bailly is the number one accounting firm offering energy efficiency and renewable credits and deductions services. Our team includes professional engineers, energy modelers, and HERS raters, all in-house, to help you maximize energy efficient incentives.

We have worked with hundreds of clients, helping to achieve maximum benefit and equating to millions of dollars saved.

Here are just a few examples of ways we’ve helped clients:

  • We worked with a townhome complex owner to obtain the 45L credit. The complex was comprised of 56 units and included energy-efficient mechanical systems and building envelopes. By gathering the necessary information and completing the certification, the client received over $104,000 in credits on their current-year tax return; the maximum credit allowable would have been $112,000 (56 units x $2,000/unit), had the remaining units been occupied.
  • We worked with a manufacturing company to obtain the Section 179D deduction. The manufacturing facility underwent a 183,000 square foot expansion, which included installation of both energy efficient HVAC and lighting. By gathering the necessary information and completing the certification, the client received over $325,000 in deductions on their current year tax return.
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What We Offer

The changes with the Inflation Reduction Act have made this a prime time for businesses, exempt organizations, and nonprofits to take advantage of energy efficient and renewable savings. Our services include:

  • Changes to Section 48, The Investment Tax Credit (ITC)

  • Energy Efficiency Deduction (Section 179D)

  • Energy Efficient Retrofit Study

  • Energy Incentive Consulting

  • New Energy Efficient Home Credit (Section 45L)

  • Other Available Incentives & Renewables

Get started with your energy efficiency tax credits and deductions today.

We can help you assess your eligibility and then work with you to maximize the potential benefit of energy efficient incentives.

Energy Incentives Leadership

Colette Gagnet

Colette GagnetCPA

Partner

Colette is a consultant with 20 years of experience providing tax consulting services and analyzing complex tax situations from both sides of the desk. She spent roughly 10 years providing tax saving solutions for clients before going in-house to focus on credits and global acquisitions for a Fortune 200 company. In returning to the client service side, focused on R&D credits and Section 174 studies. In joining Eide Bailly’s National Tax Office she is focusing her efforts on federal energy incentives while being a resource for the R&D and M&A teams. Colette helps our clients understand the ever-changing landscape of tax credits and incentives. She works with both tax-exempt and taxable organizations to understand available incentives.
Kristin Gustafson

Kristin GustafsonPE, CEM, BEMP, LEED AP

Principal/Sustainability & Energy Incentives

A licensed Professional Engineer in all 50 states and Certified Building Energy Modeling Professional, Kristin has over 20 years of consulting experience and manages 179D, 45L, and clean energy tax credit projects. She also helps organizations navigate climate compliance reporting as they advance their carbon accounting and sustainability initiatives.