The Business Council for Sustainable Energy advocates for policies that support a diverse portfolio of energy options in the United States and ensure access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions.
Improving American competitiveness through durable energy tax policies
The Business Council for Sustainable Energy supports policies that unleash our country’s affordable and reliable energy resources and provide for American prosperity. America needs a broad portfolio of energy solutions – including those in the energy efficiency, renewable energy, and natural gas sectors – to drive a sustainable, vibrant, and efficient U.S. economy.
BCSE supports tax policy as a market-based tool to create signals to invest in efficient and modern energy products and services. These are crucial to meeting growing energy needs, leveraging private sector dollars, and deploying demand- and supply-side solutions that keep energy costs down.
Maintaining business certainty in tax policy
Supporting vital technologies without disrupting the market
Leveraging private sector investment
Market-based policies that create signals to invest in efficient and modern energy products and services
Wide-scale deployment of energy solutions
Supporting industries that are onshoring manufacturing and supply chains while creating millions of jobs
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation alters existing federal energy tax credits, varying from rapid elimination of several credits, to new phasedown schedules, and to adding new requirements including provisions related to foreign entities of concern. Compared to earlier proposals, the final legislation provides a more workable transition for some energy businesses currently utilizing federal energy tax credits. However, it imposes many rapid changes to various energy credits that will cause uncertainty and increase energy costs.
As Congress considered the legislation, BCSE shared industry perspectives through DC-based congressional meetings and outreach, state-focused virtual press briefings, releasing state data, and launching social campaigns.
The BCSE coalition will continue to advocate for policies that support a diverse set of energy options in the United States and ensure access to affordable, secure, reliable, and clean energy solutions.
Related Policy Actions
- BCSE Priorities Regarding Congress’ Reconciliation Bill as It Moves to the Senate (May 22, 2025)
- BCSE and CEBN Business Sign-On Letter to Congressional Leadership Supporting Energy Tax Credits (April 29, 2025)
- Tax Policy Recommendations Submitted to the House Committee on Ways and Means (February 6, 2025)
- BCSE and CEBN Thank You Letters to Republican Members of the House Climate Solutions Caucus for IRA Support (August 26, 2024)
- Comments on Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (August 2, 2024)
View More
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to the Implementation Guidance for the Domestic Content Bonus Credit (July 15, 2024)
- Comments on Proposed Rule Related to the Section 48V Investment Tax Credit’s Definition and Treatment of Biogas Property (March 21, 2024)
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit under the Inflation Reduction Act (February 26, 2024)
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to the Section 45X Clean Manufacturing Production Tax Credit under the Inflation Reduction Act (February 13, 2024)
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to the Section 48 Investment Tax Credit under the Inflation Reduction Act (January 22, 2024)
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to Elective Payment of Applicable Tax Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act (August 14, 2023)
- Comments on Proposed Regulations Related to the Transfer of Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act (August 14, 2023)
- Letter to Treasury Department on Domestic Content Interim Guidance (August 14, 2023)
- BCSE and CEBN Letter to Congressional Leadership on Protecting IRA and IIJA Investments in Debt Ceiling Negotiations (May 12, 2023)
- Comments in Response to the EPA RFI on the Implementation Framework for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (May 12, 2023)
- Comments on the Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration (April 11, 2023)
- Supplemental Comments in Response to IRS Notice 2022-49, Clean Energy Generation Incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (December 21, 2022)
- Supplemental Comments in Response to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Notice 2022-49 (December 16, 2022)
- Comments on the Design and Implementation of the 45V Hydrogen Production Tax Credit (December 8, 2022)
- Comments on Department of Treasury and IRS Notice 2022-48, Incentive Provisions for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Residential and Commercial Buildings (December 7, 2022)
- Comments in Response to the Environmental Protection Agency RFI on the Design and Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (December 5, 2022)
- Comments on Department of Treasury and IRS Notice 2022-49, Clean Energy Generation Incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (November 4, 2022)
- Comments on Department of Treasury and IRS Notice 2022-51, Prevailing Wage, Apprenticeship, Domestic Content, and Energy Communities Requirements (November 4, 2022)
- Comments in Response to the General Services Administration’s Federal Buy Clean RFI: Construction Materials with Substantially Lower Embodied Carbon (November 3, 2022)
BCSE Tax Policy Resources
2025 Tax Policy Recommendations
Tax Policy News
Market Trends & Factbook
The 2025 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook provides up-to-date, accurate market intelligence about the broad range of industries that are contributing to the country’s move toward more efficient energy usage and cleaner energy production.