On Nov. 14, greater than 50 Home Republicans within the conservative caucus despatched a letter to Dept. of Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick asking the department to halt the import of Chinese solar inverters. The Republicans expressed concern stemming from a Could 2025 Reuters report that discovered rogue communication units not listed in product paperwork in some Chinese language photo voltaic inverters.
“The combination of important grid applied sciences, similar to utility-scale photo voltaic and battery inverters, sourced from overseas entities of concern pose unacceptable nationwide safety, financial and provide chain dangers,” the letter reads.
New International Entity of Concern (FEOC) guidelines anticipated to roll out subsequent yr will stop builders searching for federal tax incentives from utilizing a lot China-sourced tools anyway, however smaller, non-ITC initiatives might nonetheless go for it.
Numerous inverter producers have arrange U.S. manufacturing operations up to now few years. See Photo voltaic Energy World’s most up-to-date up to date checklist here.
