Hit Your COD, Keep Your Credit: Getting Ahead of the Deadline

The December 31, 2027 place-in-service deadline is closer than most teams realize—and identical projects can land on opposite sides of the 48E/45Y credit. The difference won’t be paperwork; it will be decisions made in the field months before deadline pressure hits.

In this Canary Forum, experts will break down what’s changed since IRS Notice 2026-15 and what developers, EPCs, and installers need to do now to protect project timelines and tax-credit eligibility. The discussion will explore what “placed in service” actually requires, where teams are getting caught off guard, how irreversible Approved Vendor List decisions can ripple into financing, where the battery supply gap could threaten timelines, and the key COD-protection moves teams need to make now.