The White House announced Monday that Biden will facilitate a 24-month “bridge” for certain solar imports, allowing developers to source solar modules and cells from the four countries — Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam — which together account for about 80 percent of panel imports into the U.S.
Biden will also authorize the Energy Department to use the DPA to rapidly expand American manufacturing of solar panel parts, such as the photovoltaic modules that turn sunlight into electricity, as well as building insulation, heat pumps, equipment for making and using clean electricity-generated fuels, and power grid infrastructure like transformers.
“Together these actions are going to spur domestic manufacturing,” a senior administration official said on a call with reporters Monday. “It’s going to put wind in the sail of construction projects all around the…
Biden moves to ease trade turmoil threatening his solar energy ambitions
