Congress quietly kills offshore wind tax credits, protecting fossil fuels
H.R. 2187 — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the production tax credit and investment tax credit for offshore wind facilities placed in service in the inland navigable waters of the United States or the coastal waters of the United States. · Filed by Pat Fallon (R-TX) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 18, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill removes federal tax credits for offshore wind facilities built in U.S. inland navigable waters and coastal waters. It strips four tax incentives—the investment tax credit, renewable resources production credit, clean electricity production credit, and clean electricity investment credit—from offshore wind projects in these zones, effective January 1, 2026. The result: offshore wind developers lose billions in potential tax breaks, making projects in U.S. waters far less economically viable.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is selective tax-credit denial targeting only offshore wind in U.S. waters, while leaving onshore renewables and other energy sources untouched. This asymmetric treatment protects incumbent fossil fuel and onshore energy interests by making a specific renewable technology uncompetitive.
What the text implies
- Offshore wind is the fastest-growing renewable resource in U.S. coastal zones; removing credits effectively halts development in federal waters, concentrating energy production inland and offshore in foreign jurisdictions.
- The bill does not touch onshore wind, solar, or other renewables—only offshore wind—suggesting targeted protection of competing energy sectors (fossil fuels, onshore wind, or both).
- Effective date of Jan. 1, 2026 may allow projects already in pipeline to grandfathered in, but creates cliff risk for projects in permitting or early development stages.
- Removal of credits increases reliance on fossil fuels for coastal electricity, raising long-term climate costs borne by all citizens, not just energy consumers.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens lose access to cleaner electricity supply and the jobs/economic development that offshore wind projects create. The bill makes renewable energy less competitive against fossil fuels by selectively stripping tax incentives, raising long-term energy costs and climate risk for the public while protecting incumbent energy interests.
Who stands to gain
- fossil fuel energy producers
- natural gas utilities
- coal power operators
- onshore wind developers (reduced competition)
- incumbent energy infrastructure owners
Named in the bill
Internal Revenue Code Section 48, Internal Revenue Code Section 45, Internal Revenue Code Section 45Y, Internal Revenue Code Section 48E, offshore wind industry, U.S. inland navigable waters, U.S. coastal waters, Department of Energy
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Republicans.
- Mar 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 18, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 4 disclosure filings across 3 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $10,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 5 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Pat Fallon, the sponsor, reported $359,260 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Vineyard Wind 1, LLC — $10,000 on 1 filing
- Vineyard Offshore LLC — $0 on 3 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 18, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,573 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 18, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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