Jennifer Granholm was speaking during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. Image: Department of Energy.
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has raised concerns about the country’s ability to move to a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 unless there is a quick resolution to the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) solar tariff investigation.
During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing last Thursday, Granholm was asked what is at stake for the US’s solar industry if the DOC’s investigation were to drag on for months or years.
“[What’s] at stake is the complete smothering of the investment, and the jobs, and the independence that we would be seeking as a nation to get our fuel from our own generation sources,” she said.
“I know it’s an adjudicative process that’s in the Department of Commerce and…