SB827 expands the Oregon Solar and Storage Rebate Program so that people can receive rebates not just for solar-electric systems, but also for energy-storage systems (e.g., batteries) when those storage systems are installed at the same time and paired with previously purchased and installed solar panels.

The Oregon State House of Representatives passed SB827 on May 20, 2025 by a vote of 36 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this legislation further distorts the free market by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize and favor select energy technologies. By expanding rebates, the state deepens its role in picking winners and losers, increases government spending, and advances a globalist, Marxist climate-change agenda under the guise of “clean energy” as promoted by the United Nations' Agenda 2030. Such policies crowd out market-driven innovation, expand government control over energy choices, and burden taxpayers with the costs of politically favored industries.