Mike Collins voted on May 22, 2025 and July 3, 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which ended federal tax credits for rooftop solar, home efficiency upgrades and electric vehicles and cuts off credits for new wind and solar projects. Energy researchers project the law raises Georgia household energy costs by 2035. In 2025 he also voted to repeal federal efficiency standards for water heaters, walk-in coolers and commercial refrigerators.
In 2023, at a congressional field hearing in Peachtree City, Collins mocked the clean energy incentives that the law later repealed. In Georgia, where regulators approved a large power-plant build-out for data centers, Energy Innovation projects electricity retail rates will rise 11 percent by 2040.
Mike Collins's Votes and Statements on Energy Prices and Utility Bills
- Collins Voted Twice for the Clean-Energy Credit Repeal That Is Projected to Add $270 a Year to Georgia Household Energy Costs, in 2025. On July 3, 2025, Mike Collins voted yes as the House passed the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act 218 to 214. On May 22, 2025 he had voted for the House version, which passed 215 to 214 with one member voting present, so it would have failed without his vote. The law ended the rooftop solar credit with respect to any expenditures made after December 31, 2025, ended the home efficiency credit under its SEC. 70505. TERMINATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME IMPROVEMENT CREDIT, and ends the wind and solar credits for any applicable facility placed in service after December 31, 2027 unless construction started within a year of enactment. Energy Innovation projected in July 2025 that the law's energy provisions would add $270 a year to the average Georgia household's energy costs by 2035, against $170, on average nationally. Rhodium Group found the law puts more than half a trillion dollars of clean energy and transportation investment at risk.
- Collins Voted to Repeal Three Energy-Saving Appliance Standards in 2025. In February and March 2025, Collins voted to repeal federal efficiency standards for gas-fired water heaters in homes, walk-in coolers and freezers and commercial refrigerators, and all three repeals became law. The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University estimates those repeals cost consumers $191 million, $283 million and $208 million a year in lost savings, as of its 2026 tracker.
- Collins Mocked the Clean-Energy Tax Incentives at a 2023 Georgia Hearing Called to Push for Their Repeal. At an April 2023 House Ways and Means Committee field hearing in Peachtree City, Georgia, held as Republicans pressed to roll back green energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, Mike Collins mocked the clean energy incentives at the hearing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Two years later he voted for the law that ended them, and Energy Innovation projects that law and other federal energy policy changes will cost Georgia’s economy 11,000 jobs per year on average over the next decade, on top of 5,000 clean energy jobs lost since January 2025 in the state.
What the Energy Votes Mike Collins Cast Cost Georgia Households
- Household energy bills (projection). Energy Innovation projects that, because of the law and other federal energy policy changes, Georgia households will pay an additional $34 billion for energy through 2035, an average of $710 per household in 2035.
- Electricity rates and data centers. The same analysis projects an 11 percent increase in electricity retail rates in Georgia by 2040, at a time when the rise of data centers, electrification, and expanded domestic manufacturing is straining the grid. Georgia Power plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 in December 2025 that the build-out was needed for data centers; Public Service Commission staff said customers will pay $50 billion to $60 billion over coming decades, while the utility and the commission pledge large users will more than pay for their costs (AP).
Frequently Asked Questions About Mike Collins on Energy and utility bills
What is Mike Collins's record on energy and utility bills under Trump?
Mike Collins voted twice in 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including the final House vote on July 3, 2025, which repealed federal tax credits for rooftop solar, home efficiency upgrades, electric vehicles and new wind and solar projects. He also voted to repeal three appliance efficiency standards that saved consumers money. In 2023 he mocked the clean-energy incentives at a congressional hearing in Georgia.
Did Mike Collins vote to end the solar tax credits?
Yes. Mike Collins voted for the law that ended the home solar credit for any expenditures made after December 31, 2025 and ends credits for new solar and wind projects placed in service after 2027 unless construction began within a year. Rhodium Group projects the law will raise household electricity rates 2-4% in 2035.
Will electricity bills in Georgia go up because of the law Mike Collins voted for?
Mike Collins voted for a law that Energy Innovation projects will raise energy costs for Georgia households, and nationally the group forecast that electricity rates would increase 10 to 18 percent by 2035 under the final law, in an analysis published in July 2025.
Last updated: 2026-10-25