Congress phases out renewable energy tax credits while leaving fossil fuel breaks intact
H.R. 2838 — Ending Intermittent Energy Subsidies Act of 2025 · Filed by Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill eliminates federal tax credits for wind and solar energy production and investment over a four-year phase-out period, reducing the credits from 80% of their current value in year one to zero by year five. The bill removes the ability to transfer these credits to other parties and ends them entirely for new solar and wind projects after the phase-out window closes.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core function is to phase out federal tax incentives for wind and solar energy production and investment, replacing them with no equivalent support mechanism. This is a direct subsidy reversal targeting one energy sector while leaving others untouched.
What the text implies
- The bill does not address or phase out tax credits for fossil fuels, nuclear, or hydroelectric energy, creating an asymmetric subsidy landscape that favors incumbent energy sources.
- Elimination of credit transferability may strand capital investments in renewable projects mid-development, as investors lose the ability to monetize credits through third-party sales.
- The four-year phase-out creates a cliff effect: projects placed in service after year four receive zero credit, potentially causing a boom-bust cycle in renewable installation followed by market collapse.
- Removing renewable subsidies while maintaining fossil fuel tax advantages (e.g., deductions for intangible drilling costs, percentage depletion allowances) effectively subsidizes carbon-intensive energy at public expense.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens will face higher electricity costs as renewable energy becomes less economically competitive without subsidies, while fossil fuel and nuclear energy retain their own long-standing tax advantages. The bill shifts energy investment away from renewables toward conventional sources, potentially increasing carbon emissions and climate-related costs borne by the public.
Who stands to gain
- fossil fuel producers and refiners
- conventional power generators
- nuclear energy operators
- oil and gas exploration companies
Named in the bill
Internal Revenue Code Section 45Y (clean electricity production credit), Internal Revenue Code Section 48E (clean electricity investment credit), Internal Revenue Code Section 6418 (credit transferability), wind energy sector, solar energy sector, fossil fuel industry, nuclear energy industry
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Republicans.
- Apr 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 10, 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
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $10,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 6 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 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Julie Fedorchak, the sponsor, reported $1,042,850 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Vineyard Wind 1, LLC — $10,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 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 full bill text on Jun 8, 2026; 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 Dec 2025. 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 Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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