WALBRIDGE, Ohio—Solar panels are part of any formula for fighting climate change, yet the U.S. makes few of them, since subsidized manufacturers in China dominate the market.
First Solar Inc. is trying to change that. It has just committed to building a new $680 million panel factory in Ohio. A key reason is the company’s confidence that Washington will have its back. After years of decline, the fragile American solar industry is hoping for a turnabout bolstered by President Biden’s plans to make the U.S. electric grid carbon-free by 2035, and his insistence on a made-in-America transition that would create jobs and bolster industries deemed critical.
In seeking to “reshore” manufacturing that has moved offshore, the Biden administration is initially focusing on four industries to bolster with tax breaks or other government support. One is pharmaceuticals, whose importance the pandemic shows. The other three—semiconductors, advanced batteries and minerals crucial for electronics—are important for next-generation renewable energy. Many of the plans would require congressional approval.
Solar power isn’t named as an administration priority so far, but it is lobbying for tariff or tax-law support on grounds it, too, is critical to America’s future. The Biden administration already supports extending tax credits for solar-panel purchases and is weighing whether to back tax credits that would give domestic panel makers a lift and disadvantage imports. The administration also plans to require federal contractors to purchase many solar panels from U.S. suppliers.
Thorium but hey let's keep ignoring it like we have for the last 60yrs.
35 grand was the quote for solar for my roof just to supplement existing energy sources...
Investment has to be made and federal government should step in to promote and assist in the near term by incentivizing and financing of private projects. We needs to believe in scientific understanding that global warming is for real! We can’t keep taking away from nature.
Wrong - just the will to build nuclear.
Nice paywall, got about 40 words in but I’ll drop 2 cents: Intel could easily become a solar manufacturer, they already have the equipment to manufacture and cut mono-crystalline silicon ingots into wafers.
This pipe-dream isn’t becoming reality ever with China in firm control of global supply chains and WTO. Besides these intermittent sources of energy should be treated only as the sources of supplemental power.
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Thanks, Pravda. Shit reporting, one article at a time.
This is a shame that our corporate companies have put America in those predicaments with all these jobs that are outsourced. Americans are suffering from losing skilled labor jobs and not having the skilled labor when it should matter the most. We must demand jobs are returned!
1) USA need an army of China factory worker. 2) Give them passport 3) They are ready to rock-n-roll day & night.
More efficient and cheaper cost countries should manufacture them. Going against good economics means inefficiency, sure to lead to demise of a country. Reshoring means higher cost and sure uncompetitive. If Tom Dick and Harry all talk economic, America end is nigh.
Making polysilicon uses a lot of energy (mainly coal). Slave labor for cell and panel production in Xinjiang is also cheaper than labor anywhere else.
Come on POTUS
Add value (quality, efficiency and services) to product over imported goods.
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How do they work at night or on a cloudy day... please explain... so we are not sitting in the dark
Lol this is gonna be a disaster......................................
Why don’t America and China work together?
Don't put them on the roofs of your house if you want a firefighter to put out the flames if your home ever catches on fire!
US productivity is low n cost high.