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US Senate budget bill proposal keeps cuts to solar, wind incentives
- The U.S. residential solar industry is lobbying to preserve incentives that support jobs, lower utility bills, and strengthen America’s energy security, as they are currently under threat from a Senate budget proposal.
- Investors express cautious optimism, suggesting the current proposal is not the worst outcome, even though the phase-out of solar and wind incentives is concerning.
- Climate tech investor Susan Su stated that the Senate's support for the cuts signals danger for solar and wind projects and represents a sizable setback for environmental goals.
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It Could Have Been So Much Worse for Climate Tech
When I reached out to climate tech investors on Tuesday to gauge their reaction to the Senate’s proposed overhaul of the clean energy tax credits, I thought I might get a standard dose of can-do investor optimism. Though the proposal from the Senate Finance committee would cut tax credits for wind and solar, it would preserve them for other sources of clean energy, such as geothermal, nuclear, and batteries — areas of significant focus and inves…
Health care isn't the only casualty of the MAGA budget — Solar energy is on the chopping block.
The U.S. residential solar industry is in D.C. right now, fighting for its future. They’re lobbying to preserve sensible incentives that support jobs, lower utility bills, and strengthen America’s energy security. They could use a hand—especially from...
The Epoch Times
Proposed Senate Budget Advances House’s Sweeping ‘Green Energy’ Cuts
The first Senate adaptation of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” Fiscal Year 2026 budget bill retains the wholesale slashes and clawbacks in “green energy” allocations adopted by the House when it passed its version of the spending plan by a single vote on May 22. Although some timelines are extended, the draft budget released on June 16 by the Senate Finance Committee largely replicates the House’s terminations of individual tax credits …
Colorado Springs Gazette
C3 SolutionsUS Senate budget bill proposal keeps cuts to solar, wind incentives
By Valerie Volcovici and Nichola Groom
Solar industry groups react to Senate Finance Committee draft bill
The announced investments of nearly $46 billion are at stake, along with jobs, the continued buildout of gigawatts of new solar and lower energy costs, all the while ceding the AI race to China, said industry leaders.Following release of the Senate Finance Committee’s draft text of the One Big Beautiful Bill, leaders of industry groups Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Coalition for Comm…
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