Ending Intermittent Energy Subsidies Act of 2025
This bill, the Ending Intermittent Energy Subsidies Act of 2025, aims to reduce and ultimately phase out federal tax credits that support wind and solar electricity. It does three main things: (1) ends the transferability of the wind/solar portion of the clean electricity credits (production and investment credits) so that only the non-wind/solar portion could be transferable, (2) starts a multi-year phase-out for the wind/solar portion of both the production credit (45Y) and the investment credit (48E) so that the claimed credits are progressively reduced over the first four calendar years after enactment and then eliminated thereafter, and (3) applies these phase-outs prospectively (to electricity produced or property placed in service after enactment). In short, the bill sharply reduces or ends subsidies for wind and solar projects over a five-year horizon, while leaving unaffected any non-wind/solar components in the transferability framework.
Key Points
- 1Transferability reform: The portion of the clean electricity production credit (section 45Y) and the clean electricity investment credit (section 48E) that is attributable to wind or solar energy can no longer be transferable to other taxpayers; only the portion not attributable to wind/solar remains transferable.
- 2Production credit phase-out: For electricity produced from solar or wind energy, the credit amount is reduced by a factor that declines over time—80% in the first year after enactment, 60% in the second year, 40% in the third, 20% in the fourth, and 0% thereafter.
- 3Investment credit phase-out: For qualified investments in wind or solar facilities, the amount of the investment credit is similarly reduced by the same 80/60/40/20/0% schedule depending on the calendar year in which the property is placed in service.
- 4Effective dates: The transferability changes apply to credits and the phase-out applies to electricity produced after enactment (for production credits) and to property placed in service after enactment (for investment credits).
- 5Scope and focus: The changes are limited to wind and solar energy credits; other clean energy sources are not explicitly covered by the rate-phase and transferability changes in this bill.