(Bloomberg) — Republican lawmakers are debating a bill that ramps up President Donald Trump\u2019s assault on wind and solar power, a worse-than-expected jolt to clean energy while providing aid for fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
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Shares of renewable energy companies fell, while coal miners surged.<\/p>\n
The Senate may vote Monday on its own version of a spending package that would phase out key tax incentives for wind and solar sooner than expected, and also adds a new tax. While some late additions include provisions that may help rooftop solar companies and the US panel producer First Solar Inc., the bill also includes a boost for coal used to make steel.<\/p>\n
The plan would be the biggest blow yet from a Trump administration fixed on boosting fossil fuels and slowing, if not thwarting, intermittent renewable power. The proposed tax would threaten solar\u2019s status as the cheapest electric source in many markets \u2014 and risk a Trump objective of reining in rising residential utility bills. Some of the proposals are more extreme than a version of the bill passed earlier by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cShould the current version of the Senate\u2019s language be voted into law, the likely result would be a dramatic pull-in of build activity\u201d for wind and solar, followed by a sharp decline beginning in 2028, analysts at Guggenheim Securities led by Joe Osha, wrote in a research note Monday.<\/p>\n
Shares of renewable energy companies tumbled while coal miners surged. NextEra Energy Inc., the Florida-based utility owner that\u2019s the biggest US developer of wind and solar projects, slumped as much as 5% in New York. Enphase Energy Inc., a solar-component supplier, slipped as much as 6.2%, while the US coal giant Peabody Energy Corp. gained as much as 4.8%.<\/p>\n
The newly released version of the Senate\u2019s tax and spending package, unveiled late Friday, requires wind and solar projects to be fully operational by the end of 2027 to qualify for clean energy incentives. This represents a significant tightening from the earlier proposal, which only required projects to begin construction by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cWind and solar have gone backwards from the original Senate draft,\u201d said Derrick Flakoll, an analyst at BloombergNEF. \u201cThere\u2019s this risk for basically any project that is beginning construction.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The legislation includes a tax on wind and solar projects that fail to meet strict restrictions against the use of Chinese materials, and adds the production of coal used for steel to an existing credit for clean energy technology such as wind turbines and solar panels.<\/p>\n
However, the current version of the bill also includes language that likely provides a credit that would apply to First Solar, the biggest US panel producer. The legislation may also extend a credit for residential solar systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe language reads almost as if it were written to fit\u201d First Solar\u2019s US-based supply chain, according to Guggenheim.<\/p>\n
First Solar shares climbed as much as 8.7%, while Sunrun Inc., the nation\u2019s biggest residential solar company, surged as much as 12%.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe net impact to the industry remains negative,\u201d Jefferies LLC analysts led by Julian Dumoulin-Smith wrote in a research note Monday. \u201cLots of utility-scale \u2018losers,\u2019 few \u2018winners.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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