In a big bill that hurts clean energy, residential solar likely to get hit fast
UNITED STATES, JUL 2 – The bill ends the 30% residential solar tax credit by 2025, risking billions in investments and thousands of clean energy jobs, with 3.4 million households claiming credits in 2023.
- The residential solar industry is predicted to face significant challenges, said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, who stated it will be "absolutely creamed by this."
- Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management, noted that the changes would almost certainly include the loss of jobs on their team.
- Adam Michel from the Cato Institute argued that if a business relies on a money-spigot from Washington to make it viable, it probably shouldn’t have been in business in the first place.
- One business owner expressed financial risk, stating that he made a decision from being an employee to taking out a loan from his grandmother to buy into his business and put his house on the line.
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