To help tax managers reach their planning goals, Marex is launching its new digital marketplace for transacting clean energy tax credits, giving buyers exposure to high-quality credits and supporting them in seamlessly acquiring tax credits from trusted clean energy developers.
This digital application is part of Neon, Marex’s client-focused technology suite.
With energy consumption rising in the U.S., clean energy development will play a key role in sustaining the country’s growing demand for electricity. Clean energy tax credits help mobilize capital for investments needed to develop and build clean energy infrastructure while allowing companies to apply them against their U.S. tax liabilities and optimize their tax strategies.
Marex’s new clean energy tax credit marketplace, on Neon
With Neon US Tax Credits, clean energy developers can list their tax credit offering. This way, buyers can research the projects that best match their tax credit needs.
Throughout the process, Marex’s expert team will review and prequalify credits to ensure that buyers of credits access only high-quality, verified credits from trusted sources.
Once buyers are onboarded onto the platform, they gain secure access to the inventory available on the Neon marketplace and can signal their interest in specific opportunities.
Marex’s renewable energy tax credit team will guide buyers through the process, matching them with credits that fit their tax capacity, timing, and risk profile to ensure smooth execution and clean accounting treatment.
Tax credit transferability is rapidly becoming a key factor in clean energy investments
Tax credits have been a long-standing instrument to stimulate investment in critical infrastructure across sectors. In clean energy, the first tax incentive program was established in 1913 which allowed favorable tax treatment for capital invested in hydropower.
The concept was again adopted in 1978 with the Residential Energy Credit, and then materially expanded in 1992 and 2005. Fast forward to 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) brought in one of the biggest innovations in decades – the ability to transfer them to buyers for cash.
The IRA created Section 6418 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRS), which allows clean energy developers to sell the credits they have generated by investing in the production of clean energy to an eligible buyer. The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) kept credit transferability intact and established clear credit timelines and phase-outs.
Tax credit buyers can access a slew of different types of transferable tax credits in the U.S. With the IRA expanding tax credits to new technologies and after clarifications under the OBBBA, regulatory certainty is allowing tax managers to participate in the market and procure tax credits more confidently.
Buyers are increasing demand for clean energy tax credits
The market for transferable clean energy tax credits has subsequently matured, driven by demand growth for credits. Firstly, companies no longer need to become an equity investor in a clean energy project to participate in the buildout of clean energy: by making credits transferable, buyers can participate without being directly exposed to cash flow risk. For investors, purchasing tax credits becomes a safer yet equally effective way to play a role in the scaling of clean energy infrastructure.
Secondly, credit buyers can apply them as a dollar-for-dollar offset against their federal income tax liability. Corporate buyers usually pay less than the notional value for clean energy tax credits, so corporations are finding that the discounts they’re achieving on clean energy tax credits purchases account for immediate cash savings. Altogether, they are quickly becoming instruments to optimize taxation strategies, all while funding the scaling of clean energy infrastructure.
This is why the market volume is growing so quickly, to reach a reported total of over $50 billion in 2025. Like many environmental markets, however, projects and credits differ in quality and sunsetting timelines.
Why Marex is corporates’ go-to partner to acquire clean energy tax credits
Marex’s clean energy tax credit team has decades of experience across clean energy generation, development, and finance, including U.S. tax credits and structuring billions of dollars in power, energy, and infrastructure investments. This has allowed Marex to develop a strong and diverse network of clean power developers.
Besides our wealth of expertise in U.S. tax credits, Marex gives clients access to a wide range of other environmental commodities in clean energy capacity, RECs, carbon, and renewable natural gas markets across the country. With our integrated offering, now including a new clean energy tax credit marketplace on Neon, clients can meet all their decarbonization needs in one place and with one partner – Marex.
We have over 20 years of experience and expertise in U.S. environmental markets, presence in over 60 exchanges, and investment-grade rating. This experience has allowed us to help clients develop their environmental market portfolio across a variety of products and services and with the new Neon platform, we are expanding our capabilities to provide clients with a full-service offering in environmental markets.
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If you want to learn more about how your organization can navigate the renewable energy tax credit market, visit our tax credits page or contact our dedicated team to explore tailored solutions that meet your specific objectives.
