Our Mission

A robust American solar manufacturing industry is essential for creating good-paying jobs, establishing real American energy independence, and protecting our national security.

Today, however, China is violating U.S. trade laws and could pocket billions of American tax dollars intended to support American manufacturing jobs. Unless we act to stop them, China could put American solar manufacturers out of business, hurt American workers, and lock-in a dangerous global monopoly of a critical energy technology.

Congress and the Trump Administration must defend American solar manufacturing jobs and force China to play by the rules.

“The real issue is that if you’re spending hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of American taxpayer money on solar panels that are made in China, number one, you’re going to make the economy dirtier. We should be making more of those solar panels here in the United States of America… a lot of them are being made overseas in China, especially the components that go into those solar panels. So if you really want to make the environment cleaner, you’ve got to invest in more energy production.”

Vice President-elect JD Vance

“Energy tax credits have spurred innovation, incentivized investment, and created good jobs in many parts of the country – including many districts represented by members of our conference. We must reverse the policies which harm American families while protecting and refining those that are making our country more energy independent and Americans more energy secure. As Republicans, we support an all-of-the-above approach to energy development and tax credits that incentivize domestic production, innovation, and delivery from all sources.”

Joint Letter from Republican Reps. Andrew Garbarino (NY), David Valadao (CA), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR), Marc Molinaro (NY), Erin Houchin (IN), Anthony D’Esposito (NY), Mike Lawler (NY), Nick LaLota (NY), Young Kim (CA), Jen Kiggans (VA), John Curtis (UT), Don Bacon (NE.), Tom Kean Jr. (NJ), Dave Joyce (OH), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA), Juan Ciscomani (AZ.), Mark Amodei (NV.) and Buddy Carter (GA)

“China’s aggressive subsidies for its own solar manufacturing industry demonstrate its intent to control the industry globally. By 2026, China will have enough capacity to meet annual global demand for the next ten years. This capacity is an existential threat to the U.S. solar industry and American energy security. […] We must not allow China to destroy U.S. manufacturing and control this strategic energy sector.”

Joint Letter from Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

“American workers and American businesses should be building our clean energy economy, but Chinese companies are working overtime to cheat the rules, our economy, and our workers out of the job.”

Senator Tammy Baldwin

“Despite significant investment, robust demand, and a growing workforce, American workers cannot compete when the deck is stacked against them so severely. Effective enforcement of our trade laws to level the playing field for domestic manufacturers will help counter unfairly traded solar products, promote U.S. production, support good-paying jobs, increase energy independence, and strengthen our national security.”

Joint Letter from Republican Representatives Claudia Tenney, Clay Higgins, Carol Miller, Jody Arrington, Thomas Keen, Jr., and Marionette Miller-Meeks, M.D

Communist China has been working to circumvent U.S. laws and undermine American manufacturers in the solar industry for years under the Biden/Harris administration, harming our national security and energy independence. I’ve been fighting to close this unfair practice and prevent the U.S. government from sending any U.S. tax dollars to prop up the Communist Chinese regime, one of our biggest adversaries, and I’m glad to continue those efforts […]”

Senator Rick Scott

Why it Matters?

Protecting American Jobs

The U.S. solar industry is creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs with potential for massive growth. If all U.S. developers sourced 55 percent of their manufactured solar goods domestically, the solar manufacturing industry would support 900,000 American jobs by 2035.

However, this future is in serious jeopardy. Chinese companies are actively manipulating the global solar market – dumping solar panels often made with forced labor into the American market at depressed prices to drive American manufacturers out of business. American solar manufacturers have been forced to file a petition with the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. International Trade Commission asking them to finally enforce our antidumping laws against China’s illegal conduct.

To make matters worse, Chinese companies are increasingly exploiting loopholes in critical federal tax credits intended for American solar manufacturers to pocket more than $125 billion for themselves. Unless the law is fixed, good-paying American solar manufacturing jobs will be stolen by Chinese controlled companies who are cheating the tax code.

Securing American Energy Independence

With solar expected to make up 40 percent of American energy output by 2035, the U.S. must have a strong domestic solar manufacturing base.

By building a successful domestic solar industry, the U.S. can break from its reliance on foreign energy sources — reducing our vulnerability to supply disruptions.

We cannot leave this critical component of our energy future in the hands of a single foreign adversary. We need to onshore the solar supply chain and stop China’s attacks on America’s domestic solar manufacturing capacity.

Protect National Security

Protecting the U.S.’ strategic energy interests means it is essential that we thwart China’s efforts to destroy America’s domestic solar manufacturing base. Solar manufacturing is a key battleground in the strategic competition between the U.S. and China, and we must not allow China to turn its foothold into an outright monopoly of this critical energy technology.

Solutions

Congress must protect our taxpayer dollars to ensure that Chinese companies and other foreign entities of concern cannot take advantage of the 45X clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act intended to boost American manufacturing. The Trump Administration must also tighten the “domestic content” rules that determine how much of a solar panel must be made by American workers in order to benefit from American tax credits.

It is equally important that the government enforce our existing trade laws. The Commerce Department and U.S. International Trade Commission must follow the facts and enforce the law in the antidumping cases filed by the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee.

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