The House draft reconciliation bill is prompting all corners of the industry to push to save the credits.
By Lisa Martine Jenkins – Latitude Media
Published May 13, 2025
As lawmakers in the House begin to hash out the budget reconciliation process on Capitol Hill, the solar industry is up in arms.
In the weeks and months to come, the solar industry — the largest and most commercially established of the impacted sectors — plans to lobby lawmakers to preserve the tax credits that have already spurred so much investment. And at the same time, the residential solar industry has to sell, sell, sell to their customers while the credit is still in place, before prices potentially go up.
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Companies and organizations large and small are entering the fray. TR Ludwig is the CEO of Brooklyn SolarWorks, and he is particularly focused on 25D, which subsidizes homeowners’ purchase of residential solar. The proposed change, he told Latitude Media, “effectively eliminates customer choices on how to go solar.”
“Now that it is out there it’s GO TIME on two fronts — fight to keep 25D in play longer than a few more months, and sell like it’s the end of our industry,” said Ludwig via email (emphasis his).
He’s particularly concerned about the small residential solar companies that are his peers, especially those who remain heavily reliant on Chinese supply chains and are therefore vulnerable to both tax credit and tariff upheaval. (Brooklyn SolarWorks is a part of the Amicus Solar Cooperative, a member-owned group of roughly 85 independent solar energy companies.)
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