Strong American solar manufacturing is essential for job creation, energy independence, and national security.
The Defend Solar USA Alliance educates policymakers on the conditions facing U.S. solar manufacturers.
The Defend Solar USA Alliance educates policymakers on the conditions facing U.S. solar manufacturers.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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