US President Joe Biden visiting a National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) solar facility. Image: NREL.
Actions taken this month by the US government to support the country’s solar industry are unlikely to come at the expense of support for energy storage, Energy-Storage.news has heard.
On 6 June, President Joe Biden announced a two-year waiver on tariffs for solar modules imported from Southeast Asia, even as an investigation is ongoing by the Department of Commerce into whether facilities in the region are being used by manufacturers to circumvent duties on imports from China.
As reported by our colleagues at PV Tech, the decision has been widely welcomed by the downstream US solar industry, which accounts for the vast majority of jobs and economic activity in the sector, versus the upstream, which includes just a handful of domestic makers.
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