Tax (and, with correlative meaning, Taxes and
Taxable) means:
(i) any taxes, customs, duties, charges, fees, levies, penalties or other assessments
imposed by any federal, state, local or foreign taxing authority, including, but not limited to, income, gross receipts, windfall profit, severance, property, production, sales, use, license, excise, franchise, net worth, employment, occupation,
payroll, withholding, social security, alternative or add-on minimum, ad valorem, transfer, stamp, unclaimed property or environmental tax, or any other tax, custom, duty, fee, levy or other like assessment or
charge of any kind whatsoever, together with any interest, penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount attributable thereto; and
(ii) any liability for the payment of amounts with respect to payment of a type described in
clause (i), including as a result of being a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group, as a result of succeeding to such liability as a result of merger, conversion or asset transfer or as a result
of any obligation under any tax sharing arrangement or tax indemnity agreement, but excluding any liability arising under any commercial agreement the primary purpose of which does not relate to Taxes.
Tax Allocations Flip Date means (i) with respect to the TEP 7-B Project
Company, the six-year anniversary of the date the last PV System and/or Energy Storage System has been placed in service, and (ii) with respect the TEP 7-G Project
Company, the related Flip Date.
Tax Equity Investor Distributions means the aggregate distributions made by
the Partnership Flip Project Companies to the Tax Equity Investor Members in respect of the related Collection Period, including any distribution of cash to the applicable Tax Equity Investor Member in respect of the related Collection Period as a
result of the occurrence of a Limited Step-up Event; provided that distributions that are scheduled to be paid to the Tax Equity Investor Members in respect of any Collection Period shall be treated as having
been paid during such Collection Period so long as such distributions are made no later than the related Determination Date.
Tax
Equity Investor Member means with respect to the Partnership Flip Project Companies, the member to whom substantially all of the tax benefits of ownership of the related PV Systems and Energy Storage Systems and a portion of cash are
allocated.
Tax Equity Project Company Guarantor means Sunnova Energy, under the relevant Partnership Flip Project
Company Guaranty.
Tax Loss Insurance Policy means a tax loss insurance policy issued by the Tax Loss Insurer(s), with
respect to each Partnership Flip Project Company.
Tax Loss Insurer means, with respect to each Partnership Flip
Project Company, a certain syndicate of Lloyds of London and Palms Insurance Company, Limited.
Tax Opinion means
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that an amendment or modification of the Indenture will not materially adversely affect the federal income tax characterization of any Note, or adversely affect the federal tax classification status of the Issuer.
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[***] = Certain information has been excluded from this exhibit because it is both not material
and would likely cause harm to the company if publicly disclosed.