Solar stocks drop on Senate proposal

US solar stocks slid in premarket trading on Tuesday after a Senate panel proposed phasing out solar and wind tax credits by 2028, part of changes to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending bill.

The draft bill, circulated by a Senate committee, amends Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” that the House narrowly passed last month.

“On first glance, the Investment Tax Credit/Production Tax Credit provisions for solar and wind look worse than the industries had hoped, though not quite in the same way as the House bill,” said Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov.

The committee’s draft bill proposes cutting solar and wind incentives to 60% of their value in 2026 and ending them by 2028.

Under current law, the credits wouldn’t begin phasing out until 2032.

Citi strategists said they “remain a sell on residential solar”, calling the proposal “a slight improvement” over the House version but “far more restrictive than the original bill”.

Solar firms are already grappling with weak U.S. residential demand, pressured by high interest rates and metering reforms in California that have slashed credits for excess power sent to the grid.

Shares of Sunrun have shed 27% in the past one year, while Enphase Energy is down 63% in the same period.

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The Invesco Solar ETF has dropped 22.8% over the past year.

The Senate proposal will, however, extend tax credits for hydro, nuclear, and geothermal energy through 2036.

Shares of some nuclear energy-related companies rose, with Nano Nuclear Energy and Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo up 4.8% and 5.1%, respectively.

The diverging House and Senate versions may complicate efforts to pass the bill, Trump’s top domestic priority, before a self-imposed July 4 deadline.