SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

Lobbying for SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2025

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 21, 2025

Expenses

$710,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

SARAH GROOTHUIS VILMS New on this filing

Previously held: Dec. 1990- Jan. 1991, Intern, Cong. Barbara Kennelly; Aug. 1992, Intern, Sen. Joseph Lieberman

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 3

Energy/Nuclear

Renewable Energy Policy Support of Efforts to Streamline Regulatory Siting Permitting Transmission Processes for Renewable Energy Projects Workforce Development and Diversity General Energy Storage and Transmission Policy General Solar Manufacturing Policy Funding for DOE Solar Programs

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Budget Reconciliation Inflation Reduction Act/Renewable Energy Tax Credits.

Budget/Appropriations

Funding for DOE Solar Programs Solar R&D funding in Energy & Water Development Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill to support full funding for Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) Fiscal Year 2026 Agriculture Appropriations Bill to support full funding for Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill to support improvement of interconnection times Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill to support funding for dual use agriculture economic research Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill to reduce red-tape for permitting

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.