Comments on: U.S. International Trade Commission recommends extension of solar tariffs https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/u-s-international-trade-commission-recommends-extension-of-solar-tariffs/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Jason https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/u-s-international-trade-commission-recommends-extension-of-solar-tariffs/#comment-121074 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 22:38:32 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=96882#comment-121074 “good-paying manufacturing jobs “??? Lol

]]> By: Dustin https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/u-s-international-trade-commission-recommends-extension-of-solar-tariffs/#comment-120463 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:53:36 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=96882#comment-120463 I agree with SEIA as a Solar Installation Contractor in California for the last 14 years we have seen the solar “coaster” boom & bust years. The bust thanks in part to the Section 201 trade tariffs!
Extend the ITC to keep growing distributed nationally. Add additional incentives for Energy Storage. Go a step farther & mandate all new homes are net zero with energy efficiency & renewables.
The Green Economy is booming stop subsidizing coal & other fossil fuels just to keep a few small states happy. Pull everyone into the 21st century. Kicking & screaming if we have to. We all life on this rock called earth together let protect it before we can’t come back from the damage we have done.

Thanks!

]]> By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/u-s-international-trade-commission-recommends-extension-of-solar-tariffs/#comment-120403 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:11:22 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=96882#comment-120403 “”Trade Commission for voting to extend safeguard protections, and we look forward to working with the Biden administration to ensure they understand just how critical this extension is to building an American solar supply chain that will create good-paying manufacturing jobs and ensure our energy independence from the Chinese Communist Party.””

Yeah, all of this rationalizing to the agenda is costing folks time and money. The Chinese still own the bulk of silicon foundries in the World so the supply chain excuse isn’t going to fly Mamun Rashid. One large facility in the U.S. state of Washington was built to use the cheapest energy available to run the manufacturing, hydro-electric generation. Yet, it has been claimed here in past articles REC can’t compete with China using cheap energy and produce an affordable supply chain of amorphous and crystalline silicon for Solar PV cells. Putting tariffs on goods from other countries will not protect REC or Auxin Solar in the marketplace. What it (might) do, is protect some 2,000 to 4,000 jobs and make solar PV more expensive to construct which will kill maybe 100,000 to 200,000 solar PV installation and auxiliary jobs. IF you’re going to create trillion-dollar tax plans, then you need as many employed to help pay those taxes, not save 4,000 tax paying jobs and throw away 100k to 200k tax paying jobs.

” “Under the Section 201 tariffs, America lost out on 62,000 solar jobs, including a net-loss of 6,000 solar manufacturing jobs. SEIA remains committed to growing domestic manufacturing, but tariffs aren’t the answer. It’s time to enact real industrial policy, like Senator Ossoff’s Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act, to foster and grow the solar manufacturing sector here at home.””

Now the ‘statistics’ have changed around 68k jobs lost and yet early on SEIA was saying 100k to 200k jobs lost. One thing is pretty clear, the supply chain didn’t magically appear during Trump’s administration, it still hasn’t appeared and is not likely to appear during Biden’s administration.

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