Energy Incentives

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Improve cash flow and reduce funding costs through energy efficiency, renewable energy, and decarbonization initiatives.

Navigating federal energy incentives can be complex, but the right advisor can help you identify and capture available opportunities.

Eide Bailly helps businesses, developers, nonprofits, and other organizations take advantage of energy investment and production tax credits, energy efficiency deductions, and residential energy incentives, including Sections 48, 48E, 45, 45Y, 45X, 45Z, 179D, and 45L.

Our integrated team of accountants, tax attorneys, engineers, energy modelers, and HERS raters works together to guide clients through qualification, documentation, and compliance requirements while helping maximize available incentives.

We've supported thousands of clients in securing energy-related tax benefits, resulting in millions of dollars in savings.


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Strategic Relationship Program

  1. Discovery Programming

    • Understand sustainability and energy efficiency goals
    • Provide education sessions on energy tax incentives
    • Collaborate with your advisors throughout proposal and planning processes
    • Co-present and sponsor webinars and conferences

    Create a strategy and lay a foundation to account for energy incentives on capital projects

  2. Phase 1 Design

    • Dashboard energy incentives for renewable, energy efficiency and decarbonization projects
    • Assist with alternate bids for energy property that reflects the potential credit or rebate
    • Prepare a memo outlining energy incentive options and ITC/PTC ranges
    • Advise on prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements

    Customize a plan to maximize energy incentives that align with sustainability objectives

  3. Phase 2 Construction

    • Identify in-progress energy property that may qualify for incentives
    • Document credit increases and optimize basis for incentive calculations
    • Run energy models and certify the 179D Energy Efficient Building Deduction
    • Calculate the applicable energy credit
    • Draft IRS forms, statements, and elections

    Implement the energy incentive strategy with a turnkey approach



What We Offer

The Inflation Reduction Act has created new opportunities for businesses, exempt organizations, and nonprofits to capture energy efficiency and renewable energy incentives. Our services include:

  • Investment Tax Credits (Section 30C, 48, 48C, 48D, 48E)

  • Production Tax Credits (Section 40A, 45, 45Q, 45U, 45V, 45W, 45X, 45Y, 45Z)

  • Commercial Building Energy Efficiency Tax Deduction (Section 179D)

  • New Energy Efficient Home Credit (Section 45L)

  • Energy Incentive Monetization

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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 efficiency incentives.

Energy Incentives Leadership

Kristin Gustafson

Kristin Gustafson

Partner, 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.
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Colette Gagnet

Colette Gagnet

Partner, Energy Incentives

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.
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