Florida Senator Ashley Moody voted on July 1, 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (roll call 372), which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote and ended the federal tax credits for home solar, home efficiency upgrades and electric vehicles, and for wind and solar facilities placed in service after December 31, 2027. That night she voted against amendments to keep those credits and against a motion to prevent changes in policy that will lead to increased electricity prices for American families. Energy Innovation projects that the repeal of the rooftop and commercial solar credits means another 17 GW of solar deployment lost as a result of 25D and 48E tax-credit early termination in Florida, and that federal energy policy changes since January 2025 will cost Florida households an additional $69 billion for energy.
Moody also voted to confirm Energy Secretary Chris Wright, whose emergency orders keep retiring coal plants running at ratepayers' expense, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose department fired the entire LIHEAP program staff that runs federal home energy aid. She was not among the senators who wrote to Kennedy asking him to reverse course on those firings.
Ashley Moody's Votes and Silence on Energy Prices and Utility Bills
- Moody Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Repealed Clean-Energy Tax Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Ashley Moody voted yes on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote, so it would have failed without her vote. The law ended the 30 percent rooftop solar and home battery credit with respect to any expenditures made after December 31, 2025 and cuts off wind and solar projects placed in service after December 31, 2027. Rhodium Group projects household electricity rates increasing by 2-4% in 2035 and says the law puts more than half a trillion dollars of clean energy and transportation investment at risk.
- Moody Voted Against Keeping the Wind and Solar Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Jacky Rosen's amendment to maintain parity for wind and solar facilities under the Internal Revenue Code, which would have removed the bill's new cutoffs for wind and solar. It failed 47-53. Energy Innovation projected that the final law would leave the country with a 340 gigawatt decrease in generation capacity by 2035 and electricity rates 10 to 18 percent higher.
- Moody Voted Against Keeping the Home Efficiency and Rooftop Solar Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Jeanne Shaheen's amendment providing that the amendments made by sections 70505, 70506, 70507, and 70508 are repealed, which would have kept the credits for heat pumps and insulation, rooftop solar, efficient commercial buildings and new efficient homes; it failed 49-51. The same night she voted against Senator John Hickenlooper's amendment to keep the rooftop solar credit through 2026 (roll call 365), which failed 48-52. The home efficiency credit and the rooftop solar credit both ended after December 31, 2025, so Florida families installing solar panels, heat pumps or insulation in 2026 get no federal credit.
- Moody Voted Against Protecting Families From Higher Electricity Prices and Clean Energy Factory Jobs in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Moody voted no on Senator Ron Wyden's motion to return the bill to committee with changes that would prevent changes in policy that will lead to increased electricity prices for American families and small businesses; it failed 47-53. She also voted no on Senator Raphael Warnock's motion for changes that would protect clean energy manufacturing jobs in the United States (roll call 359), which failed 48-51. A year later the business group E2 counted $68 billion in lost capital investment from canceled clean energy factories and power projects, which it attributes to the law and to other administration actions.
- Moody Voted Against Overturning the Treasury Rule That Narrowed Wind and Solar Credits in March 2026. On March 25, 2026, Moody voted no on taking up S.J.Res. 107, which would have overturned the IRS's "Beginning of Construction" rule for the wind and solar credit termination; the motion failed 47-53. That rule, IRS Notice 2025-42, made a physical-work test "the sole method" for most projects to show they started construction in time, after a July 2025 executive order told Treasury to "strictly enforce the termination", so fewer projects can still claim the credit.
- Moody Voted Twice Against Budget Rules to Protect Home Electricity Bills. On February 20, 2025, Moody voted no on a motion that would have created a point of order against legislation that would raise energy costs for Americans, including higher monthly electricity bills, as the Senate wrote the budget plan that set up the 2025 law. On April 23, 2026 she voted no on a point of order against legislation that would not decrease home electricity bills, which failed 48-50. Energy Innovation projected in July 2025 that the 2025 law's energy provisions alone would add $430 a year to the average Florida household's energy costs by 2035, a projection reported by CNBC.
- Moody Voted to Repeal Energy-Saving Appliance Standards in 2025. In April and May 2025, Moody voted to repeal federal efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers (April 3), gas-fired instantaneous water heaters in homes (April 10) and commercial refrigerators and freezers (May 1), all under the Congressional Review Act. Policy Integrity counts the three as "Fully Repealed" and estimates the lost consumer savings at $283 million, $191 million and $208 million a year, savings that would have reached customers through lower energy bills.
- Moody Voted Twice to Keep the Energy Emergency Behind the Coal-Plant Orders. On February 26, 2025 and October 8, 2025, Moody voted against resolutions terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy (second vote), and both failed, 47-52 and 47-51. The emergency framing underpins the Energy Department's orders to keep retiring coal plants open, which Grid Strategies estimates could cost ratepayers $3.121 billion to $5.925 billion a year if extended to every large plant scheduled to retire through 2028.
- Moody Voted Against a Budget Measure to Shield Consumers From Iran-War Price Increases in April 2026. On April 22, 2026, Moody voted no on a budget motion relating to ensuring that consumers are protected from price increases associated with tariffs and the Iran war, which failed 47-51. She had cast one of the 50 votes in January 2025 to confirm Pete Hegseth, who led the war that began February 28, 2026. Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi estimates the war costs the average household nearly $2,000, including $1,100 in higher energy prices, and Florida's average gas price rose from $2.91 to $3.95 a gallon, 35.6%, between February 18 and August 20, 2026, according to AAA data compiled by Visual Capitalist.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Energy Secretary Who Ordered a Retiring Coal Plant to Keep Running. On February 3, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Chris Wright as secretary of energy. Starting in May 2025, Wright's department issued emergency orders forcing the Campbell coal plant in Michigan to run past its retirement, the sixth of them until November 14, 2026; Consumers Energy has reported $295 million in costs associated with the Campbell plant, and on September 11, 2026 a federal appeals court ruled that the first two Campbell orders were illegal. Across all of the department's emergency orders, ratepayers faced at least $300 million in extra costs through mid-May 2026, according to IEEFA.
- Moody Voted to Confirm the Health Secretary Whose Department Fired the Staff Who Run Heating Aid. On February 13, 2025, Moody voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services. On April 1, 2025, his department fired the entire LIHEAP program staff at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal workers who run the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Congress kept the program funded, but federal LIHEAP staff have not been rehired, according to the national association of state energy-aid directors.
- Moody Did Not Join the Senators Who Asked HHS to Restore the Heating-Aid Staff. On April 3, 2025, thirteen senators, including Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, wrote to Kennedy urging him to reverse course on the recent reported elimination of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) workforce; Moody was not among the signers listed in the release. The program kept its money, LIHEAP received $4.045B in funding for FY2026, but the state energy-aid directors' association reports that federal LIHEAP staff have not been rehired, leaving states to run the program without the federal team that issued guidance and released funds.
What the Energy Policies Ashley Moody Voted For Cost Florida Households
- Household energy costs. Energy Innovation projects that the law and other federal energy policy changes since January 2025 mean Florida households will pay an additional $69 billion for energy, an average of $630 per household in 2035, and will cost Florida’s economy 25,000 jobs per year on average over the next decade.
- Rooftop solar. Florida was predicted to become the top-ranked residential solar power state in the nation in 2028 before the credit repeal, the Florida Phoenix reported in June 2025, when the Solar Energy Industries Association warned that Florida could lose potentially up to 21,800 solar and storage jobs under the House version. Energy Innovation projects that the repeal of the home and commercial solar credits, together with the end of Solar for All, means less rooftop solar being deployed in Florida. Lee Zeldin's EPA terminated the $7 billion Solar for All program in August 2025, and a federal judge vacated the termination on September 18, 2026, ruling that the EPA illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashley Moody on Energy and utility bills
What is Ashley Moody's record on energy and utility bills under Trump?
Ashley Moody cast one of the 50 votes that passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which repealed federal tax credits for rooftop solar, home efficiency upgrades, electric vehicles and new wind and solar projects, and she voted against every amendment and motion that night to keep them. She voted to confirm Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose department fired the federal staff who run heating and cooling aid, and she did not sign the letter asking Kennedy to reverse it.
Did Ashley Moody vote to end the solar tax credit?
Yes. Ashley Moody voted on July 1, 2025 for the law that ended the 30 percent residential clean energy credit for any expenditures made after December 31, 2025, and the same night voted against an amendment that would have kept it through 2026. Florida homeowners who install rooftop solar or home batteries in 2026 no longer get the credit, which ended after December 31, 2025.
Will Ashley Moody's votes raise my electric bill in Florida?
Ashley Moody voted for the law that modelers project will raise energy costs: Rhodium Group projects household electricity rates nationally increasing by 2-4% in 2035, and Energy Innovation projects higher energy spending for Florida households by 2035. These are projections, and the wind and solar cutoff for facilities placed in service after December 31, 2027 has yet to take full effect.
Last updated: 2026-10-25