119th Congress · introduced in the House · Feb 6, 2025
No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act of 2025
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Latest action (Feb 6, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Feb 6, 2025)
No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act of 2025
This bill excludes expenses for certain property and facilities placed into service on prime farmland from multiple energy-related tax credits.
Specifically, the bill excludes expenses for property placed into service on prime farmland from the
• residential clean energy tax credit (tax credit for up to 30% of the cost to install solar water heating property, solar electric property, fuel cell property, small wind energy property, geothermal heat pump property, or battery storage technology);
• renewable electricity production tax credit (tax credit for electricity that is produced from a qualified facility [for which construction generally begins before 2025] using wind, solar, or other specific types of renewable energy);
• clean electricity production tax credit (tax credit for electricity that is produced from a qualified facility that is placed into service after 2024 and has a greenhouse gas emissions rate of zero);
• energy investment tax credit (tax credit for investment in qualifying energy property for which construction generally begins before 2025, with some limited exceptions); and
• clean electricity investment tax credit (tax credit for investment in qualifying energy property placed into service after 2024 and has an anticipated greenhouse gas emissions rate of zero).
The bill defines prime farmland as land with the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for the production of food and other related uses.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H519)
Introduced in House
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CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · amended · posted Aug 31, 2026 · issue area: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
$150,000
Spent on own lobbying
…and proposed transmission tax incentive. H.R.310, the Restoring Energy Market Freedom Act; H.R.1003/S.425, the Enhancing Energy Recovery Act (carbon capture); H.R.1080, the No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act; H.R.1237, the PANELS Act; H.R.1462, the To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the production tax…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION · lobbying firm or registrant: CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION
2025 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) · posted Jul 18, 2025 · issue area: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
$140,000
Spent on own lobbying
…and proposed transmission tax incentive. H.R.310, the Restoring Energy Market Freedom Act; H.R.1003/S.425, the Enhancing Energy Recovery Act (carbon capture); H.R.1080, the No Solar Panels on Fertile Farmland Act; H.R.1237, the PANELS Act; H.R.1462, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the production tax cre…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing