This Reconciliation Invoice Proposal Isn’t Simply Misguided …

Final Up to date on: 1st July 2025, 12:11 am

WASHINGTON D.C. — Following is an announcement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation (SEIA) on the reconciliation invoice textual content unveiled [Saturday] by the U.S. Senate: 

“This reconciliation invoice proposal isn’t simply misguided — it’s a direct assault on American vitality, American staff, and American shoppers. It guts the very industries which can be decreasing electrical energy payments, revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, and constructing extra new energy capability than each different vitality expertise mixed.

“Make no mistake: if this invoice passes, People pays the value — actually. Energy payments will rise. Manufacturing unit jobs will vanish. Households can be pressured to spend extra simply to maintain the lights on and their houses cool. All whereas we grow to be extra depending on international vitality and extra weak to blackouts.

“Any Senator who votes for this invoice is voting for increased vitality costs, a weaker economic system, and a much less safe America. And so they’ll should reply for it when households open their utility payments, when staff lose their paychecks, and when voters head to the polls.

“We urge lawmakers to suppose very fastidiously concerning the future they’re voting for as a result of this invoice doesn’t reform our vitality system, it sabotages it.”

About SEIA®: The Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality economic system. SEIA works with its 1,200 member corporations and different strategic companions to battle for insurance policies that create jobs in each group and form honest market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by way of analysis, schooling and advocacy. Go to SEIA on-line at www.seia.org and comply with @SEIA on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.