In the latest Senate version of the GOP’s budget and tax bill, better known as Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, the 30% tax credit for home solar and batteries is going to be over 180 days from the time the President signs it.

Other tax credits for utility-scale solar and wind projects are going to be completely phased out by 2028.

As expected, the Republican Party has been trying to remove incentives for renewable energy to clean its grid and achieve much-needed productivity expansions.

The main effort is through the new budget and tax bill, known as Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, which was passed by the House last month. However, the bill is expected to evolve as it progresses through the Senate.

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Under the version passed by Congress, the ITC (Section 25D), which offers a 30% tax credit for home solar and energy storage systems, was going to be completely phased out by the end of 2025.

The Senate has now released the latest draft of the bill, which includes more details about how it plans to eliminate renewable energy incentives.

According to the latest language, the home solar and battery incentive would end 180 days after it is enacted.

Here’s the latest language:

It’s not exactly clear when Trump could sign the bill. It is still contested by some Republicans, who hold the majority in the Senate, but killing the

The rumor is that they are trying to get it on his desk by July 4, which would mean the end of the tax credit by December 31st and no real change compared to the House bill at this level unless there are further delays on passing the bill in the Senate, which is not out of question.

This is creating a new level of urgency for home solar and battery installations to get systems deployed and activated by the end of the year.

The only good news with the current Senate version of the bill compared to the House’s is for larger-scale utility solar and battery projects, which generally fall under Section 48E of the Code (ITC).

There’s now a planned phase out with 60% of the incentive in 2026 and 20% in 2027 rather than ending by 2025:

• Solar and wind facilities would be eligible for the full ITC or PTC, as applicable, if construction begins in 2025.
• If construction begins in 2026, such facilities would be eligible for 60 percent of the otherwise available ITC or PTC.
• If construction begins in 2027, such facilities would be eligible for 20 percent of the otherwise available ITC or PTC.
• Thereafter, such facilities would not be eligible for the ITC or PTC.

Those incentives are instead going to be directed toward hydropower, nuclear and geothermal energy through 2036.

Electrek’s Take

Some good, some bad here. Obviously, this is a win for big corporations and the fossil fuel industry more than anything.

They don’t want decentralized energy production and storage, which is what the tax credit for residential solar power and energy storage systems is intended to incentivize.

The good news is that if you are a homeowner and you still don’t have solar, there might be time to still lock in an installation by the end of the year – though it is starting to be limited due to high demand.

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Tesla is gearing up to start selling its upcoming Tesla Semi electric truck in Europe with a new hire to develop the market.

Tesla Semi is finally about to go into volume production in the US after being unveiled almost a decade ago.

The vehicle was unveiled in 2017 and was initially scheduled to enter production in 2019; however, the automaker delayed the program on several occasions.

Tesla unveiled a “production version” in 2022, but it was only produced in small batches. The Class 8 electric truck remains a rare sight in the US, with only a few dozen units in the hands of a handful of customers and a few more in Tesla’s internal fleet.

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In January 2023, Tesla announced an expansion of Gigafactory Nevada to build the Tesla Semi in volume.

However, that plan was also changed and delayed. Tesla ultimately built a separate factory adjacent to Gigafactory Nevada, and production was delayed until 2025.

Earlier this year, Tesla completed the building and started working on the production lines. The automaker said that Tesla Semi production was expected to begin in late 2025 and ramp up to a capacity of 50,000 trucks per year.

Now, we learn that Tesla is starting to build an organization to sell the Tesla Semi in Europe.

Electrek found that Tesla hired a new leader to head business development for Tesla Semi in Europe.

Usuf Schermo announced on his LinkedIn last week that he joined Tesla as “Head of Business Development EMEA for Tesla Semi.”

Schermo, who holds a master in economic engineering, energy and ressources management from TU Berlin, has some experience with commercial electric vehicles.

He was the head of sales in Germany for Volta Trucks from 2022 to 2024. The company made the Volta One, a 16-tonne electric truck aimed at city deliveries.

Volta went bankrupted in 2023, but it got back in business with a restructuring in 2024, which didn’t last long as they were insolvent as of last month.

For the last year, Schermo has been leading sales for EVUM aCar, a German startup building a small commercial vehicle.

Now, he will develop the market for Tesla’s class 8 electric truck.

The European electric commercial truck market is much developed in the US with already some significant competition from Volvo with the Volvo FH Electric, Mercedes-Benz with the eActros 600, MAN with the eTGX, and several others.

The market is still young, but Volvo is already emerging as a leader with an estimated more than 3,000 electric trucks in operations in Europe.

With production only starting in the US toward the end of the year, Tesla is not likely to have an homologated version of the Tesla Semi in Europe until later in 2026.

Tesla has already announced plans to build the Tesla Semi in Europe at Gigafactory Berlin.

The automaker currently only produces the Model Y at the German factory and its sales are crashing across Europe.

Electrek’s Take

I keep saying to Tesla fans that hate me: I track both Tesla hires and departures. I try to report on both, but the former are much more scarce than the latter these days.

This is one of the few significant hires of the last years at Tesla and say “significant” because it shows Tesla is preparing to sell the Tesla Semi in Europe because this is clearly not an executive level role.

Over the last year and since the great purge of talent in April 2024, Tesla has almost been exclusive promoting from within at higher director and VP levels rather than hire from outside.

As for the Tesla Semi in Europe, it could work. Like I said, there’s already a lot of competition, but Tesla Semi is expected to have a longer range than everything else, which should attract buyers.

However, as we recently reported, it is expected to be much more expensive than what Tesla previously announced.

It could particularly useful for Gigafactory Berlin, which is at a real risk right now with Tesla’s sales crashing in Europe. Producing a new vehicle program there, and a commercial one that rely less on consumer perception, could help increase factory utilization.

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