Solar panel import tariffs increase US module prices by up to 286% ( www.pv-magazine.com )

bobburger , 16 days ago

Biden's sanctions on solar panels from China has resulted in protected monopolies jacking up costs.

This claim is not supported by the article in any fashion.

Summary from the article:

Clean Energy Associates released a summary of the seven solar module trade policies and solar panel import tariffs currently in place, including AD/CVD rulings, Section 201/302, and the Uyghur Protection Act. These tariffs have significantly increased, or will increase, the cost of hardware imports into the United states – predominantly from China, but not exclusively – by 91% to 286%

The article addresses how the tariffs are expected to increase the prices of solar panels imported from various countries.

This seems like yet another blatant misrepresentation of facts as part of OPs aggressive voter suppression campaign to make Joe Biden look bad in order to help Donald Trump get elected.

billiam0202 , 16 days ago

Someone else around here got banned for being that disingenuous; maybe the mods keep dishing out that treatment?

Ensign_Crab , 16 days ago

I said you lot would find a new target. Called it.

billiam0202 , 16 days ago

So you also recognize there are many bad-faith posters who are trying to induce apathy and division in order to facilitate another Trump presidency?

Cool, I'm glad we can agree on one thing!

Ensign_Crab , 16 days ago

So you also recognize there are many bad-faith posters who are trying to induce apathy and division in order to facilitate another Trump presidency?

I recognize that centrists interpret all deviation from neoliberal orthodoxy as such.

Cool, I’m glad we can agree on one thing!

Putting words in my mouth and then announcing we agree.

anticolonialist OP , 16 days ago

Biden doesn't need help looking bad, if your preferred candidate loses it will be because of incompetence by the party, and that pesky genocide thing.

partial_accumen , 16 days ago

While this does make solar pv installations in the USA slightly more expensive, the cost of panels is a surprisingly small number of the total cost of install. Labor is the largest, by a wide margin.

SuiXi3D , 16 days ago

As it damn well should be.

Zehzin , 16 days ago

To add to this: Depending where you are, labor can be more than half of the total cost of installation. The best case scenario from my googling is just slightly under the hardware cost.

That said, this is for home installation, obviously a solar plant that is installing a huge amount of them will have lower costs per watt

autotldr Bot , 16 days ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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As the United States reassesses its shrinking manufacturing base relative to China’s expanding influence and considers the global geopolitical landscape, solar panel import tariffs continue to play a pivotal role in shaping the industry.

According to a fact sheet from the U.S. International Trade Administration, the Commerce Department found that “Chinese producers/exporters have sold solar cells in the United States at dumping margins ranging from 18.32 to 249.96 percent.

To prove the origin of the product, the industry has started to develop supply chain verification techniques, and some Chinese solar manufacturers have initiated agreements with international polysilicon groups.

The ruling specified that Chinese-origin solar cells would not be tariffed if at least three of six key subcomponents, including silver paste, aluminum frames, glass, backsheets, ethylene vinyl acetate sheets, and junction boxes, also originated outside of China.

President Biden paused the resultant tariffs for two years to foster the expansion of the U.S. solar industry, aligning with the goals of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The current administration has extended and increased tariffs under the Section 301 ruling established in 2018, now covering solar cells, as well as batteries for cars and grid storage.

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