Senate Tax Bill Strikes Clean Energy But Leaves Room for Relief

The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill would soften the blow for wind and solar developers, which had feared a sharp reduction in subsidies that helped spur a renewable power boom in the past few years. But the bill now faces conservatives in the House of Representatives eager to kill those credits.

The measure that passed the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on some projects and would allow renewable developers potentially five more years to qualify for federal incentives created under former President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law.

But the bill would still hobble US clean energy ...