Chip Roy

A group of clean energy investors won a major victory in Texas this week after it spent more than $1 million to help defeat one of the country’s biggest opponents of renewables.

Now the investors say they have $15 million on hand and hope to flex their political muscles nationally — including by helping Republicans who support wind and solar energy stay in power.

“This is an effort to shape a pro-clean-energy majority in the Congress, regardless of party,” said Thomas Matzzie, a renewable energy executive who is leading the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC.

The group is funded by renewable energy developers and philanthropists and is heavily backed by Chris Larsen, the billionaire co-founder of the cryptocurrency platform Ripple.

On Thursday, they were openly gloating because Representative Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, lost a runoff for his party’s primary for Texas attorney general. Mr. Roy led the fight last year to abolish manufacturing tax credits for wind, solar, electric vehicles and other clean energy production that Democrats had passed during the Biden administration.

Mayes Middleton, a conservative state senator who won the primary, attacked Mr. Roy for lacking sufficient loyalty to President Trump. The clean energy coalition helped amplify that message by spending $1.1 million on ads highlighting Mr. Roy’s clashes with Mr. Trump and arguing the congressman was “not MAGA enough for Texas.”

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