Why Has Solar Become Partisan? In the past 6 months, solar has become partisan, but really only in DC, and I am not sure why. For years there was an argument about subsidies and whether government should be picking winners and losers. Of course all energy sources are heavily subsidized and even operates under a different, regulated, economic system. But not approving solar projects so they don’t get built, in a time when solar is needed, cheap and fast generation, becomes a level of partisan that I can’t understand the rationale for. Plenty of SolarWakeup readers live on both sides of the political aisle, so this isn’t about a belief system, it seems to be about pure politics with a goal in mind, a goal that leaves an industry confused. So what do you think the goal of the attacks is?
- Bloomberg: The Fix for Solar Power Blackouts Is Already Here
- CNBC: Solar executives warn that Trump attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
- Wall Street Journal: Why Solar and Wind Power Can Thrive Without Subsidies
- Axios: Trump administration halts work on New England offshore wind project
- Energy Storage News: North America energy storage acquisitions: FlexGen acquires Powin, Glencore acquires Li-Cycle
- Reuters: US opens national security probe into imported wind turbines, components
- Solar Builder: California’s distributed storage program can save ratepayers $206M by 2028
- PV-Tech: Tariffs and AD/CVD ‘not welcome news’ say experts, as India treads the murky US markets
- Solar Power World: New Jersey kicks off program to deploy 2 GW of energy storage by 2030
- Canary Media: Why power bills are rising — and why that’s not changing soon
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Best, Yann