The One Big Beautiful Bill aggressively winds down long-standing wind, solar, vehicle, and energy efficiency tax credits, threatening to kill clean energy projects, increase energy costs, and slow the rapid onshoring of domestic clean energy manufacturing. Already, businesses have canceled, closed, and scaled back more than $22 billion* worth of new projects and factories.
To retain some of the clean energy projects that are fueling the economy by creating jobs, keeping energy costs down, and helping meet rising energy demand, policymakers should:

• Oppose federal policies that undermine the region’s clean energy jobs and investments: Additional federal hurdles and taxes, including new red tape for building on public lands and changes to Treasury Department rules, will drive away investments in Illinois, increase market uncertainty and kill local jobs.
• Power data centers with clean energy: The rapid rise in data centers is contributing to unprecedented energy demand. As states grapple with how to power these centers, they must prioritize the commonsense, low-cost, clean options. Utility-scale solar and onshore wind are the cheapest and fastest forms of new energy to deploy.
• Prioritize new transmission: State leadership must work with regional transmission organizations (RTOs) to ensure important new transmission lines are built, creating capacity for the new clean energy projects we need.
• Maintain Illinois’s clean energy leadership through strong state policies: Policies like the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act remove  roadblocks and create pathways to meet Illinois’s 100% clean energy goal set in CEJA. The bill adds 6 GW of battery storage, helps consumers cut bills through rebates and efficiency programs, and strengthens transmission to deliver more clean electricity reliably and affordably.