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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="677025320-14042011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">A commercial customer of ours, who is an attorney, investigated this at length with the IRS because he was pursuing the 30% in form of a grant. The wording
he got back was that if the batteries were 100% charged by solar then yes. So if you can prove that the PV generates more annual energy than that needed to charge and keep the batteries charged, that battery charging is the priority, and only excess energy
is sent to other loads and the grid, then maybe that's compliant? At this point I think I'm supposed to say that I'm an engineer and not qualified to be giving tax advice. Hope this helps some.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="677025320-14042011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Jeff Irish, PE</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="677025320-14042011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Hudson Valley Clean Energy</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="677025320-14042011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">and Adirondack Solar</font></span></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dana<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'RE-wrenches'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] tax credit on batteries<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">All my OG clients have taken the 30% fed and no issues here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">Dana Orzel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">Great Solar Works, Inc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">E - dana@solarwork.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'">"Responsible Technologies for Responsible People since 1988"</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonathan Hill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RE-wrenches RE-wrenches<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] tax credit on batteries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal">Can anyone tell me if batteries are covered by the federal tax credit? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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