NASEO compiled the 2025 governors’ energy-related executive orders and energy-related state legislation and created a searchable tracker to view the actions by various energy sectors. More than a dozen energy-related executive orders and over 300 energy-related state laws were enacted in 2025. Following are a few highlights of the states’ policy actions thus far this year:
- Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Alabama’s “Powering Growth” Plan into law, establishing a new framework for energy security and economic development in the state.
- Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed Executive Oder 2025-13, “Removing Barriers to Delivering Affordable Energy in Arizona,” directing various Arizona state agencies to identify opportunities and strategies to streamline energy project deployment, helping to make the state more energy affordable, resilient, and robust.
- Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB25-182 into law, a bill that broadens the eligibility of projects under the state’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing (C-PACE) program and Industrial Tax Credit offering to include embodied carbon improvements.
- Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill No. 4, “An Act Concerning Energy Affordability, Access, and Accountability” into law, which will provide immediate electric bill relief to customers and establishes a play to improve energy affordability and reliability in the long term.
- Idaho Governor Brad Little signed an Executive Order establishing the Idaho Advanced Nuclear Energy Task Force, which will assess and recommend strategies to support the state’s leadership in nuclear energy innovation, deployment, and workforce development.
- Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed Executive Order 25-66, which calls for the development of a State Energy Growth Plan to meet Indiana’s growing energy demand while supporting energy reliability and affordability for its residence.
- Maine Governor Janet Mills signed legislation creating the Maine Department of Energy Resources, which will elevate the Maine Governor’s Energy Office to a cabinet-level department that will lead policy for the state with a focus on affordable, reliable, and increasingly clean energy for Maine.
- Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed an Executive Order creating the Energy Advisory Council (also known as the Unleashing American-Made Energy Task Force), which will provide the Governor with recommendations and strategies for Montana to increase the supply of affordable and reliable energy options.
- Ohio Governor DeWine signed Ohio House Bill 15, which reduced personal property tax on all forms of new generation and storage, encourages the adoption of grid-enhancing technologies, incentivizes energy developments on brownfields, establishes a $40 million energy efficiency/solar load program for schools, requires utilities to file rate cases every three years, and promotes the adoption of behind-the-meter generation by large energy users and behind-the meter service, among other items.
- South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Energy Security Act, to improve South Carolina’s ability to generate and deliver the power needed to keep pace with the state’s rapid economic growth and rising population.
- West Virginia House Bill 2014 (the Power Generation and Consumption Act) creates a certified microgrid program to expand microgrid development, utilize coal and natural gas resources, and reinvest in West Virginia by creating funds to lower the income tax, provide funding for economic development, stabilizes the electric grid. The bill aims to incentivize data centers in West Virginia by creating a specialized tax structure, and by allowing a third party to provide data centers power via a microgrid.
The state policy actions tracker is available on NASEO’s website here, and will be updated regularly. Please reach out to Cassie Powers (cpowers@naseo.org) with any questions, or to share information about recent energy-related executive orders and legislation.