Delegates at this year’s COP30 summit agreed to a “global mutirão”, meaning “collective efforts”, to tackle climate change, but the final text of the summit includes no framework for reducing fossil fuel production.
A report published by the US Department of Energy (DOE) this week claims that the previous government’s support for renewable energy could cause blackouts to “increase by 100 times” by 2030.
The US House of Representatives has passed the final version of the reconciliation bill that is now going to US President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature before its passing.
The US Senate has narrowly passed – with a 51-50 vote and with vice-president JD Vance breaking the tie – the reconciliation bill yesterday (1 July) without the solar and wind excise tax.
The US House Ways and Means Committee has proposed to bring forward the end date for residential energy tax credits (Section 25D) to the end of 2025, among other changes that could affect the solar industry.
The US solar industry may be celebrating a record-breaking year with 49GW of new capacity added and renewables surpassing 1,000TWh of total electricity generation, but newly announced tariffs have created uncertainty.