Renewable power developers blasted a US government decision that will slap new tariffs on solar exports from Southeast Asia, saying the move will slow clean energy deployment and harm climate progress.
“We’ve gone from toasting the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act and its positive impacts on America’s energy transition to lamenting the imposition of harmful solar tariffs that will severely constrict solar availability in the US,” Gregory Wetstone, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, said Friday in an interview.
The investigation, triggered by a request from California-based Auxin Solar Inc., pitted two core Biden administration constituencies against each other: renewable developers eager to accelerate deployments and domestic manufacturers that argued they were unfairly being undercut by foreign rivals.Many US developers have already sought to shuffle supply chains to minimize disruption and were anticipating the outcome, following a preliminary ruling last December.
“This case will just make it harder for American businesses to keep deploying, financing and installing solar power,” Hopper said, adding that the decision “is out of step with the administration’s clean energy goals.”
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