Democrats will control Congress, and restoring renewable subsidies tops their energy agenda

Democrats regained control of Congress on Tuesday, and they'll likely try to roll back some of the sweeping changes President Donald Trump made to U.S. energy policy.

Besides rescinding a number of Biden-era emissions regulations and anti-fossil fuel policies, Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act scheduled production tax credits (PTC) for renewable energy to end for facilities put into service after Dec. 31, 2027.

The tax credits were originally intended to be a temporary program to incentivize the building out of wind and solar farms by providing a federal tax credit per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced. After more than three decades, new wind and solar farms are still eligible for the tax credits.