The Concord Standard
The Concord Standard offers clarity, confidence, and credibility across the board.
No matter if you’re for-profit, tax-exempt, a project designer, or a stakeholder in the new transferable tax credits market, we help you make the most of clean energy tax incentives
Concord keeps it simple
Our compliance management services allow you to confidently convert clean energy incentive opportunities into real returns.
We stay focused on what we do, so you can stay focused on what you do: building better and powering progress.
Assessment
We evaluate projects to assess what they qualify for including all applicable “bonus” provisions available.
Roadmap
We develop a compliance roadmap to understand the specific requirements you need to meet to maximize incentives.
Compliance
We manage compliance through the project lifecycle ensuring we have everything needed to substantiate your claim.
Substantiation
We provide you with the comprehensive substantiation you need to qualify for energy incentives and claim them confidently.
Monetization
For tax-exempt entities, we can provide you with the entire suite of services you need for direct pay. For other stakeholders, we deliver the due diligence loan providers, insurers and tax credit buyers demand to make your credits a desirable commodity.
Continuation
We provide audit defense and ongoing compliance support throughout any applicable recapture window via our proprietary software, Concord Caisson.
Who are you?
Project designers and product manufacturers
We help you power more projects
The Concord Standard adds to your credibility and increases the value you can offer to clients.
How Concord helps
Enhance your offering
We integrate with your team to identify, manage, and support clean energy incentive claims that make your clients' projects possible.
Win more work
If you approach a potential client and tell them you can help them claim up to 70% of a project cost back from the government, you'll win more projects.
Fund your future
We can use project data to also identify and substantiate your own qualifying incentive claims, such as 179D and R&D tax credits.
Transferable tax credit marketplace stakeholders
Buy better, build better, be better
The Concord Standard helps to realize the value of the clean energy incentive marketplace.
How Concord helps
Deep expertise
The new transferable tax credits market requires new skills and expertise. Concord has done the heavy lifting so you don't have to.
Mitigating risk
Our compliance management program provides expert-backed rigor and risk mitigation for stakeholders across the transferable tax credits market.
Supporting the ecosystem
Whether you're a buyer, insurer, broker, or are working to build better, the Concord Standard can support you.
Tax-exempt project owners
We help you build a better world
Claim the money you need to make vital upgrades and fund clean energy initiatives
How Concord helps
Managing complexity
Concord helps you identify what you can claim, and manages compliance throughout with our proprietary software.
Securing funding
The Concord Standard substantiates your tax credit claims, helping you secure an important source of liquidity.
Realizing your return
We support you throughout the process, helping to ensure that you maximize the value of your tax credits.
For-profit project owners
Generate transferable tax credits buyers can believe in
The Concord Standard gives you the seal of approval you need to go to market with confidence.
How Concord helps
Create your commodity
Being eligible for clean energy incentives isn't the same as substantiating them for sale. The Concord Standard turns eligibility into desirability.
Complexity managed
Concord identifies, manages, and substantiates clean energy tax credit compliance from inception through construction and beyond through the recapture window.
Ensuring a win-win
Our comprehensive compliance management program minimizes risk and maximizes return for all.
Take the first step
Working with Concord is as easy as 1,2,3:
- Talk to us
- Activate the Concord Standard
- Realize your returns
We’re a powerful hybrid
That’s how many years we’ve spent specializing in clean energy tax incentives.
We’re deeply involved in shaping public policy on them and we’re experts in engineering and clean energy projects. This combination makes us a rare breed that can handle any and every aspect of compliance and claims.
We’re a mine of knowledge
That’s how many documents there are on clean energy incentives (so far). And we’ve read them all.
Clean energy tax incentives are a gold mine and we know exactly where that gold is in any given project. We can show you how to get there, mine it effectively, and extract every available nugget.
We’ve got the right tool for the job
That’s how good our proprietary software is.
Concord Cassion is designed to support compliance management and substantiation for clean energy incentives. And like any best-in-class tool, it’s precision-engineered for the task at hand while being simple and intuitive for you to use.
We keep you on the money
That’s how much our clients have monetized with our support so far.
179D tax deduction
If your company designs new construction or retrofit projects for government or other tax-exempt entities, Concord can help you claim significant tax deductions via 179D.
R&D tax credits
If you’re working with variables inherent in the built environment, focused on the development of clean energy projects, and finding ways to reduce energy consumption, then you’re doing research and development.
Transferable tax credits: 6418
The new transferable tax credits market requires new skills and expertise. Concord has done the heavy lifting so you don't have to.
Direct Pay: 6417
Direct pay makes real transformation possible for tax-exempt entities by making tax credits available as a cash payment from the government.
179D is Now Extended Through 2020
179D Extended! 2017 Projects Now Eligible
Concord Policy Primer – 179D Extension in Senate Budget Deal
Concord Policy Primer, Volume 5 – Extenders Language Released
Concord Policy Primer, Volume 5
How Concord is Steering the Effort to Extend 179D
Concord Policy Primer, Volume 4
Concord Policy Primer, Volume 3