Without immediate action, the industry faces a bloodbath next year.

The sun still shines brilliantly today here on Hawaiʻi island, but a dark cloud now looms over our state’s clean energy future. On July 4, President Trump signed his big budget bill into law, abruptly terminating the 30% federal solar tax credit — nine years ahead of schedule, along with many other green energy tax credits.

For Hawaiʻi, already burdened with the nation’s highest electricity rates, this could not have come at a worse time. The impact will be devastating. Without immediate action from our state Legislature, Hawaiʻi’s solar industry faces a bloodbath next year, families will remain trapped paying HECO’s sky-high rates, and our ambitious clean energy goals will slip further out of reach.

The chart shows how

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