Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Safety Company’s administrator, announced on X right now that the Photo voltaic For All grant program is shutting down. This announcement follows the Trump Administration’s sunsetting of many Inflation Discount Act incentives bolstering home photo voltaic by the One Massive Stunning Invoice Act (HR1).
Photo voltaic For All was handed into regulation as a part of the IRA to broaden entry to inexpensive photo voltaic power to low-income areas throughout the nation. Sixty projects have been awarded a complete of $7 billion in federal grants. If these initiatives are accomplished, practically a million properties in the USA will profit from solar energy. The EPA is reportedly sending termination letters to these grant recipients, per the New York Times.
“Photo voltaic power is cheaper, cleaner, and extra dependable than soiled fossil fuels,” mentioned Patrick Drupp, coverage director of the Sierra Membership. “By rescinding these grants, Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin are denying our most susceptible communities a useful resource that might have helped alleviate their monetary burdens and improved their high quality of life.”
That is simply the newest in a sequence of actions the Trump Administration has taken in current weeks, together with tightening restrictions for federal leases for renewable power initiatives, rescinding all designated wind areas on the outer continental shelf and eliminating the EPA’s Workplace of Analysis and Growth.
In 2024, the USA’ home photo voltaic power manufacturing hit a record-breaking 50 GW of capability, and as of 2023, the photo voltaic power sector employed greater than 263,000 Americans.
“Nothing might be extra hypocritical than touting a made-up ‘power emergency’ to prop up fossil fuels whereas on the similar time taking a sledgehammer to renewable power initiatives,” Drupp mentioned. “We won’t stand by as Trump continues this harmful, merciless agenda.”
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