Certainty for Our Energy Future Act
Key claim: The Certainty for Our Energy Future Act would terminate federal clean electricity investment and production tax credits for wind and solar facilities that begin construction after 2030 and prohibit entities connected with China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from claiming a wide range of energy-related federal tax credits and deductions.
Abstract
(HR3291 · 119th Congress) Certainty for Our Energy Future Act This bill terminates federal tax credits for certain investments in and the production of electricity using wind and solar energy. The bill also prohibits certain entities connected with China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from claiming various energy-related federal tax incentives. The bill terminates the federal clean electricity investment tax credit and the federal clean electricity production tax credit for investments in and electricity produced by a facility (1) used to generate electricity using wind or solar energy, and (2) for which construction begins after 2030. The bill also prohibits an entity that is created or organized under the laws of or controlled by the government of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, or an entity controlled by one or more of such entities, from claiming the federal tax credits for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property, second-generation biofuel, biodiesel fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable electricity production, carbon sequestration, zero-emission nuclear power production, clean hydrogen production, clean commercial vehicles, advanced manufacturing production, clean electricity production, clean fuel production, investments in energy property, advanced energy projects, clean electricity investment, biodiesel mixtures, alternative fuel, or alternative fuel mixtures. Further, such entities are prohibited from claiming the federal tax deduction for energy efficient improvements to commercial buildings. Finally, such entities are not entitled to a credit or refund of federal excise taxes paid on biodiesel, alternative fuel, or sustainable aviation fuel mixtures produced by the entities. Latest action (2025-05-08): Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Why this matters
The bill combines an adversary-linked entity exclusion from U.S. energy tax incentives with a hard sunset of wind/solar clean-electricity credits after 2030, altering the trade calculus for foreign-owned developers and component suppliers active in U.S. renewables. For importers of wind/solar equipment and China/Russia/Iran/DPRK-affiliated project sponsors, it would narrow eligibility for federal subsidies that currently shape U.S. demand; for domestic developers it accelerates the deadline for locking in tax-credit-eligible projects, with downstream implications for electricity prices and supply-chain sourcing decisions.