The administration moved to waive anti-circumvention tariffs on solar panels for two years and invoking the Defense Production Act to speed up domestic manufacturing of solar panel components, energy-efficient heat pumps, building insulation and transformers needed for the electric power grid.The run-up to the announcement took months of an intense pressure campaign from an embattled solar industry and bipartisan governors and lawmakers alike. It eventually reached the top levels of the White House, including White House chief of staff Ron Klain and counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. The source of the solar industry’s panic was a Commerce Department investigation into whether these four countries — Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam — were skirting US trade laws, using components from China that should be…
Clean energy industry and climate activists see glimmer of hope in new Biden action after months of ‘hard times’
