Roger Marshall on Energy and Utility Bills: His Deciding Vote to Repeal Clean-Energy Credits, Votes Against Lower Electricity Bills, and the Officials Who Cut Heating Aid Staff

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall 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 he 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 law and other federal energy policy changes will cost Kansas households $670 per household in 2035.

Marshall 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 heating aid, and he was not among the senators who signed an April 2025 letter asking Kennedy to reverse it. He cast one of the 50 votes to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who led the 2026 Iran war, after which Kansas gas prices rose 57.1%.

Roger Marshall's Votes and Confirmations on Energy Prices and Utility Bills

• Marshall Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Repealed Clean-Energy Tax Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall 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 his vote. The law ended the 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.
• Marshall Voted Against Keeping the Wind and Solar Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Voted Against Keeping the Home Efficiency and Rooftop Solar Credits in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Marshall 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 he 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 Kansas families installing solar panels, heat pumps or insulation in 2026 get no federal credit.
• Marshall Voted Against Protecting Families From Higher Electricity Prices and Clean Energy Factory Jobs in July 2025. On July 1, 2025, Marshall 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. He 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.
• Marshall Voted Against Overturning the Treasury Rule That Narrowed Wind and Solar Credits in March 2026. On March 25, 2026, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Voted Twice Against Budget Rules to Protect Home Electricity Bills. On February 20, 2025, Marshall 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 he voted no on a point of order "against legislation that would not decrease home electricity bills," which failed 48-50. Kansas's average residential electricity price was 15.47 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, up from 14.65 cents a year earlier, according to the Energy Information Administration.
• Marshall Voted to Repeal Energy-Saving Appliance Standards in 2025. In April and May 2025, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Voted Twice to Keep the Energy Emergency Behind the Coal-Plant Orders. On February 26, 2025 and October 8, 2025, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Energy Secretary Who Ordered a Retiring Coal Plant to Keep Running. On February 3, 2025, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Health Secretary Whose Department Fired the Staff Who Run Heating Aid. On February 13, 2025, Marshall 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.
• Marshall Cast One of the 50 Votes to Confirm Pete Hegseth, Who Led the Iran War That Raised Kansas Fuel Prices. On January 24, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense; the vote was 50-50 with the Vice President breaking the tie, so a no vote from Marshall would have defeated the nomination. On April 22, 2026, after the war began, Marshall 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. Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi estimates the war costs the average household nearly $2,000, including $1,100 in higher energy prices, and Kansas's average gas price rose from $2.47 to $3.88 a gallon, 57.1%, between February 18 and August 20, 2026, according to AAA data. Farm diesel prices "have exceeded $6 per gallon in Kansas in recent weeks," the Kansas Reflector reported in October 2026.
• Marshall 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; Marshall was not among the senators the release lists after the words "In addition to Reed, Collins, and Murkowski, the letter was signed by". The staff were not brought back: federal LIHEAP staff have not been rehired, the energy-aid directors' association reported.

What the Energy Policies Roger Marshall Voted For Cost Kansas Households

• Household energy costs. Energy Innovation projects that the law and other federal energy policy changes since January 2025 mean Kansas households will pay an additional $8.2 billion for energy, raising annual household energy spending by $670 per household in 2035 and $770 per household in 2040, with Kansas gasoline prices 17 percent in 2035 and 31 percent in 2040 higher than otherwise.
• Jobs. The same changes will cost Kansas’ economy 3,900 jobs per year on average over the next decade, in addition to the 3,700 clean energy jobs Energy Innovation counts as lost since January 2025.
• Electricity prices. Kansas residential customers paid an average of 15.47 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, up from 14.65 cents in August 2025, Energy Information Administration data show.

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Last updated: 2026-10-25

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