Republicans introduce last-minute industry ‘killer’ tax on solar and wind in spending

[special]

Business groups and clean-energy developers are apoplectic over a last-minute provision tucked into President Donald Trump’s spending bill that will tax the solar and wind industry, making it much harder to get new, cheap electricity onto the grid.

Senate Republicans revealed an entirely new tax for renewable energy this weekend, in the latest version of a bill that could be passed as early as Monday afternoon. The bill already stripped tax incentives for renewables by 2027 and gave developers stringent requirements to claim them.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/climate/t...wind-solar

[ThePosterFormallyKnownasbfd]

“Electricity demand is set to see enormous growth & this tax will increase prices."

Look no further…

[Acer]

Read...my...lips. No...new...taxes.
Or, how about Taxed Enough Already.

Except when the tax can stick it to the libs.

[halbert]

I think this kinda stuff is gonna backfire on the repubs.

When I travel though the Trumpy parts of california, I see TONS of trump support. There are panels out in the middle of fields everywhere... covering barns and the farm houses. Around here, solar is popular for everyone.

[jonny]

Solar is popular everywhere, and rapidly becoming the most efficient means of electricity production. Fossil fuel interests are desperately trying to smother the baby in the cradle.

[RAMd®d]

Coal, beautiful coal.

Beautiful coal is the answer.

Running low on fuel?

Drop another briquette or two in the boiler.

Throw a few bags of Kingsford in the back of the pickup and you're golden.

LOL, golden.