Why It Matters
Leeward Renewable Energy LLC disclosed lobbying in the third quarter of 2026 on issues affecting the development, financing and operation of facilities that generate renewable electricity from wind, solar and battery storage, including land use, permitting and environmental matters. The filing names no specific bills, but the issues sit within a federal policy fight over permitting rules and clean-energy tax credits.
By the Numbers
The in-house filing reports $170,000 for the third quarter of 2026, down $70,000 from the $240,000 reported in the second quarter of 2026. The third-quarter 2025 total was $140,000, making the current period $30,000 higher than a year earlier.
The in-house filing names one lobbyist: Becky Campbell, Senior Director, External Affairs, who carries no prior congressional staff experience on record.
Broader Context
On July 4, 2025, Public Law 119-21 changed clean-electricity tax-credit rules for wind and solar, including termination provisions for qualifying facilities that do not meet the law's construction timing requirements.
The Interior Department issued a memorandum on July 15, 2025, requiring elevated review of decisions related to wind and solar energy facilities.
A federal judge ruled in December 2025 against a government-wide suspension of new wind permitting. In April 2026, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction against directives restricting federal wind and solar permitting.
The House passed the SPEED Act, H.R. 4776, in December 2025; the bill would amend the National Environmental Policy Act and change environmental review of major federal actions, and its enactment had not been established as of the filing's Oct. 9 signed date.
The Bottom Line
Becky Campbell is listed as Leeward's in-house lobbyist on every filing from the first quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026, and Policy Development Group Inc. remains a registrant after SC Partners LLC's termination in the first quarter of 2026.
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