Inflation Reduction Act Resource
Energy Community Mapping Tool
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 has created tax credit opportunities for clean energy projects sited within an energy community in the U.S.
Energy Community Mapping Tool
Thomas E. Unke
Principal
Joel M. Laubenstein
Principal
Cory R. Wendt
Principal
David Capitano
Principal
Gideon Gradman
Managing Director
Donald N. Bernards
Principal
Bryan Halpin
Director
Robert Moczulewski
Director
Energy community
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 defines an energy community as either:
- a brownfield site, or
- metropolitan statistical area or nonmetropolitan statistical area which has 0.17% or greater direct employment or at least 25% of local tax revenues related to the extraction, processing, transport or storage of coal, oil or natural gas, and has an unemployment rate greater than the national average unemployment rate for the previous year, or
- a community which is in proximity to a coal mine which has closed after Dec. 31, 1999, or in proximity to a coal-fired electric generating unit that was retired after Dec. 31, 2009. A closed coal mine or retired coal-fired electric generating unit must have been closed within the census tract, or in a directly adjacent tract.
Our interactive mapping tool can help you determine if a project might be located in an "energy community" that may qualify for the energy community bonus component of the Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit under the Inflation Reduction Act.
