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Money / PACs

Solar Energy Industries Association

Solar Energy Industries Association PAC (SOLARPAC)

Trade association PAC FEC C00421982

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$92K
Trade association lobbying, all issues $4.3M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Solar Energy Industries Association reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 4 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Budget/Appropriations8 of 88/8
  • Energy/Nuclear8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Agriculture7 of 87/8
  • Natural Resources5 of 85/8
Trade (domestic/foreign) 5 of 8 · Environment/Superfund 2 of 8 · Show all 7
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)5 of 85/8
  • Environment/Superfund2 of 82/8

Bills named in the filings 18 bills, this period

13 more, 9 named in only one filing · Show all 18

From the filings

“FY2027 Energy & Water Development Appropriations H.R 9022 - DOE Solar Energy R&D Funding and State Energy Program H.R. 9022 FY2027 Agriculture Appropriations - Rural Energy for America Program H.R. 8646 Funding for DOE Solar and Storage Programs”
Q3 2026 filing · Budget/Appropriations
“Renewable Energy Tax Credits”
Q3 2026 filing · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • Energy
  • Treasury
  • White House Office
  • CommerceDOC
  • InteriorDOI
  • AgricultureUSDA
  • U.S. Trade RepresentativeUSTR

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in 7 of 8.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Solar Energy Industries Association, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 38 sitting members of Congress in 2025–26.

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