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This webinar was recorded on October 22, 2026.
This webinar, presented by Intersolar & Energy Storage North America (IESNA) partner, Canary Media, tackles a deadline that is closer than most project teams realize: December 31, 2027, the place-in-service cutoff that can put two otherwise identical projects on opposite sides of the 48E/45Y tax credits. What separates them is less about paperwork than about field decisions made months before deadline pressure hits.Â
The discussion looks at what has changed since IRS Notice 2026-15 and what developers, EPCs, and installers should do now to protect both timelines and credit eligibility. Speakers include Heather Cooper, a partner at McDermott Will & Schulte focused on federal energy tax credits, along with industry voices from SolarEdge (Kleber Facchini), Anza Renewables (Ravi Manghani), and New Leaf Energy (Rohit Patil). Maria Virginia Olano, Canary Media’s chief of staff, hosts. The mix of tax counsel, equipment, sourcing, and project-development perspectives is aimed at connecting tax rules to real project decisions.
What you’ll take away:
- “Placed in service” has specific requirements. Teams should understand what it actually takes to qualify, since this is where many are caught off guard.
- Approved Vendor List decisions are irreversible. Those choices can ripple into project financing, so they deserve early scrutiny.
- The battery supply gap is a timeline risk. Shortages could threaten COD dates if teams don’t plan ahead.
- Early field decisions decide credit eligibility. Acting now, rather than near the deadline, is the core of protecting COD and the 48E/45Y credits.
Speakers
Heather Cooper, Partner, McDermott Will & Schulte
Heather Cooper focuses her practice almost exclusively on federal income tax issues within the renewable and transitional energy industry. She has substantial experience advising clients on federal energy tax credits, including the investment tax credits and production tax credits. Additionally, Heather’s real-time analysis, webinars and client updates on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) have made her a go-to authority in the post-OBBBA world. Her breadth of experience spans many technologies and tax incentives, including solar and wind, storage, fuel cell, hydrogen, biomass, offshore, refined coal, hydro, waste, biogas, nuclear, renewable natural gas, manufacturing, carbon sequestration and electric vehicles. Heather advises clients on all structures available for monetizing energy tax credits, including tax equity partnerships (flips, inverted leases and leasebacks), self-monetization and portfolio structures.
Kleber Facchini, Senior Director, CC&I Products and Applications, SolarEdge Technologies
Kleber Facchini is Director of Product Management and Applications Engineering for SolarEdge's Commercial & Industrial (C&I) business in North America. With more than 20 years of experience in renewable energy, power electronics, and electrical engineering, he leads product strategy and applications engineering for SolarEdge's commercial portfolio, working closely with customers and partners to deliver innovative solar and energy storage solutions.
Ravi Manghani, Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing, Anza Renewables
Ravi Manghani is the Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing at Anza Renewables, where he’s responsible for business and product strategy as well as supplier relations and contract management. He has 20 years of commercial and technical experience in energy storage and solar industries. Most recently, Ravi was the ESS business development director at Gotion, where he owned large developer accounts. Before Gotion, he led LS Energy Solutions’s strategy and market development functions. In his past life at CEA, Wood Mackenzie, and Photon Consulting, Ravi led and built industry-leading market intelligence products and services in energy storage, solar, and renewables supply chains. He holds a Master of International Business degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Washington, Seattle and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.
Rohit Patil, Senior Director of Design Engineering, New Leaf Energy
Rohit Patil is Senior Director of Design Engineering at New Leaf Energy, leading Engineering teams at SunEdison, Tesla and New Leaf Energy. He has 12+ years’ experience delivering a GW of Energy Infrastructure projects across utility-scale solar, storage, EV charging, and microgrids.
Host & Moderator
Maria Virginia Olano, Chief of Staff, Canary Media
Maria Virginia Olano is chief of staff at Canary Media. Before joining the Canary team, she worked on state-level climate policy advocacy, specifically focusing on communications strategies. She previously produced the podcast Political Climate and hosted and produced the podcast Cooler Earth. She grew up in Colombia and now lives in Boston.
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