“There’s a very good probability it will come up next week,” Kiernan tells Recharge.

“We think we’ve got well over the minimum 60 [votes] to get it passed through the Senate – we’re quite optimistic,” he says.

The swift passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate of the so-called tax extenders bill – which includes several dozen tax breaks affecting various industries, including the PTC – would “continue the momentum for the PTC in this Congress” ahead of what will be a much more difficult slog in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Kiernan says.

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