The last time we checked in on America’s fledgling solar manufacturing industry, things were looking bleak.
The Biden administration announced in June that it would freeze tariffs on solar imports for two years, bowing to a massive P.R. campaign from solar importers to quash a Commerce Department investigation (that’s still ongoing!) into whether China is shipping products through four Southeast Asian countries to avoid tariffs. Then in July, negotiations over climate change legislation fell apart, which meant proposed subsidies to boost U.S. solar manufacturing appeared to be off the table.
