When the Residential Clean Energy Credit expires at the end of 2025, as many as 17 states without current third-party ownership providers could see their residential solar marketplaces severely impacted. Even if states manage to pass new laws to encourage solar growth, lawmakers could be stymied by an April 8th Executive Order directing the US Attorney General to stop the enforcement of state laws “purporting to address ‘climate change.’”
Quoting an analysis of the Executive Order by Bracewell’s Brittany Pemberton, Alamdar Hamdani, Anouk Nouet, Joseph Brazauskas and Scott Segal, pv magazine noted that the Trump administration is likely to use a “multipronged approach” to challenge exactly the kinds of state laws that have enabled residential solar growth in the past.
