12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Major · Needs Congress

Repeal subsidies for electric generation resources

Partially done

Printed page 402 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions

“In addition, Congress should repeal subsidies for generation resources.”

What has happened

Jul 7, 2025 Partially done
Executive Order 14315 directed Treasury to "strictly enforce the termination" of the §45Y/48E credits for wind and solar within 45 days and Interior to remove preferential treatment of wind and solar; Treasury's Notice 2025-42 (2025-08-15) tightened the beginning-of-construction test accordingly.
- Executive Order 14315 — Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources
  Primary Executive branch Jul 7, 2025
- Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources (Executive Order 14315)
  Primary Executive branch Jul 7, 2025
- IRS Notice 2025-42 — Beginning of Construction Requirements for Purposes of the Termination of Clean Electricity Production Credits and Clean Electricity Investment Credits for Applicable Wind and Solar Facilities
  Primary Executive branch Aug 15, 2025
Jul 4, 2025 Partially done
P.L. 119-21 §§70512-70513 end the clean electricity production and investment credits (IRC §§45Y and 48E) for wind and solar facilities placed in service after 2027-12-31 and add foreign-entity restrictions; the credits continue for nuclear, geothermal, hydropower and storage, and §70510 enlarged the zero-emission nuclear production credit. Subsidies were narrowed by technology, not repealed.
- P.L. 119-21 — reconciliation act, §70512 Termination and restrictions on clean electricity production credit; §70513 ... investment credit; §70510 zero-emission nuclear power production credit
  Primary Congress Jul 4, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

The Mandate’s sentence sits in the FERC section (p. 402) and is technology-neutral (“subsidies for generation resources”). The enacted change cuts wind and solar only and expands the nuclear credit; partial is the reading taken.
Production-incentive rescissions proposed by DOE on 2025-05-16 (Renewable Energy Production Incentives, 2025-08569; cellulosic biofuel incentives, 2025-08572) are housekeeping removals of unfunded programs, not tracked as events.

Action: repeal
Object: federal subsidies for electric generation resources
ID: 1021