Several energy experts, including me, explained to Senator Thom Tillis [in a secret meeting] why the Big Beautiful Bill’s termination of subsidies for solar/wind projects not “placed in service” before the end of 2027 was absolutely necessary to keep electricity reliable, lower costs, and avoid hundreds of billions in future budget costs. [emphasis, links added]
Sadly, in his zeal to preserve these subsidies (and perhaps his zeal to tank the bill) in his recent speech to the Senate, he tried to discredit the many experts who support “placed in service” by singling out me—and trying to make me look ignorant by lying about my remarks in a secret meeting he organized with me, a meeting he and all participants swore not to discuss publicly.
In his Senate speech debating the Big Beautiful Bill, Tillis portrayed my remarks in his meeting as illustrating that I support a “placed in service” termination “without a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid”—that I am someone who “can’t possibly understand what happens to this pipeline of power purchase agreements and the future of our grid.”
Anyone who believed Tillis’s speech to the Senate would conclude that I was advocating “placed in service” without understanding its implications for the grid and various projects in progress.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 29, 2025
In reality, in that meeting (and in two previous ones) I explained painstakingly and irrefutably why the “placed in service” terminology is crucial: it is the only way for this Congress and administration to terminate grid-destroying solar/wind subsidies—and its use in both the House bill and most recent Senate bill (which Tillis opposes) that fully protects subsidies for completed and near-completed projects.
And I can prove that my account is right and Tillis’s is astonishingly dishonest. To protect myself against the possibility that Senator Tillis or someone else in the meeting would break their oath not to discuss it publicly, I recorded my remarks.
I hope all of Senator Tillis’s colleagues read what I told him—first and foremost to understand the issue and stick with the “placed in service” termination, but also to draw their conclusions about the motives and character of a colleague who would break an oath to secrecy to defame one energy expert and, by association, the many others who agree with him.
The following (everything in italics) is a transcript of (just) me speaking. I’ve edited it (extremely lightly) to avoid repetition.
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The truth all Senators need to understand: “placed in service” is essential to terminating grid-destroying solar/wind subsidies.
There’s this document. It’s called “The truth about the House Big Beautiful Bill’s effects on subsidized projects.”
90% of politicians I’ve talked to don’t understand fully what the House did. I worked on this very intimately, and the issues are very clear. Basically, what the House Big Beautiful Bill did was it had two requirements to get a subsidy.
You had to be “in construction” by a certain date. The easy way to do that is you pay 5% of the project cost for transferable assets like solar panels.
And you have to be “placed in service” by 12/31/28, which actually means you need to be connected to the grid, operating, etc.
And the reason for doing that was that the members of the House wanted to accomplish three things.
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If this this scum sucker decides to do this then he don’t Need a Job Period and should resign from Politics for good maybe a job as Sanitation Worker would be better
Lying Tillis has announced his retirement instead of facing the NC voters next year.