WASHINGTON — With the House’s final passage of the reconciliation package this afternoon, Congress has made an irrational and punitive choice—undermining one of America’s greatest energy success stories at precisely the wrong moment.
By voting for this bill, Congress chose to raise energy prices, put at risk thousands of energy projects already under development, destabilize investor confidence in energy markets, and put hundreds of thousands of American jobs at risk. This bill rewrites long-standing tax policy and layers on immediate, punitive sourcing requirements. Put bluntly, this legislation picks winners and punishes losers by holding solar energy to standards that no other energy source in America is held to.
If we are serious about keeping America competitive in the global race for advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence—a race that will drive 150 gigawatts of new load in just five years—then we cannot afford to sideline the cheapest, fastest-to-deploy resource: solar and storage. While our global competitors are racing to deploy clean energy at scale (China deployed 277 gigawatts of solar last year alone — more than the total amount that the U.S. has ever installed), solar + batteries must be at the heart of an all-of-the-above strategy that advances innovation, strengthens our grid, and keeps energy costs low.
Congress has put up irrational roadblocks—but our industry will not back down. This won’t be the first time we’ve overcome policy swings, and we’ll do it again. So long as the grid needs more power, customers demand it, and American competitiveness hinges on it—we will continue to build, innovate, and deliver low-cost distributed power to the grid.
This is a critical moment—but we’ve never paused in the face of challenge. With bipartisan support in state legislatures across the country, we’re doubling down on community solar, distributed energy, U.S. supply chain resilience, and local partnerships so that affordable, resilient clean energy remains within reach. Our story does not end here; it grows stronger—because energy freedom matters now more than ever.