I’m sympathetic to U.S. solar module manufacturers who are tired of competing against unfairly subsidized Chinese panels. The fact that the Chinese government supports their module manufacturing with enormous governmental investments while our own manufacturers have to beg and plead with their own government for help must be maddening.
But the new tariffs being investigated by the Biden administration on other Asian countries are not the answer. In fact, instead of imposing new tariffs, the administration should be hard at work revitalizing the supply chain, particularly in light of the $33 billion of private investment the solar industry injected into the economy last year and the more than 230,000 jobs it supports.
