TaxNewsFlash-Cooperatives

November 4, 2009
No. 2009-14

House Bill Would Provide Business Credit for Qualified Thermal Energy Property Owned by Cooperative Electric Company

House Ways and Means Committee member Mike Thompson (D-CA) has introduced a bill (H.R. 3918), the Thermal Energy Cooling and Heating Act of 2009, that if enacted, would provide a tax credit for qualified distributed thermal energy storage property. For purposes of the tax credit proposed under the bill, the term “qualified renewable energy facility” would be defined to include any qualified distributed thermal energy storage property owned by a public power provider, a governmental body, or a cooperative electric company.

The bill has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee. There has been no committee action on the bill.

For an electronic version of the bill’s text: H.R. 3918

For more information, contact KPMG’s National Director of Cooperative Tax Services:

David Antoni, in Philadelphia, (267) 256-1627, dantoni@kpmg.com

Or Associate National Director of KPMG’s Cooperative Tax Services

Brett Huston, in Sacramento, 916 554 1654, bhuston@kpmg.com

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