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Because the Senate takes up the Home reconciliation invoice this week, the photo voltaic trade is looking for any clues that the most important proposed cuts to the Inflation Discount Act (IRA) may very well be tempered within the remaining model.
On June 4, Utah Sen. John Curtis wrote an op-ed within the Deseret News searching for a “scalpel vs. sledgehammer” method to reconciliation — particularly in the case of IRA incentives. Sen. Curtis says though he agrees some parts of the IRA needs to be reduce, others help strategic vitality property and a strong home economic system.
“To satisfy President Trump’s objectives, we should deliver each vitality supply to the desk as a part of the answer. If we prematurely reduce any one in every of them off — or achieve this with no affordable, accountable offramp — we don’t simply threat falling in need of our vitality targets; we put our economic system and nationwide safety in jeopardy,” Sen. Curtis writes.
A state-by-state analysis by SEIA discovered the present model of the finances invoice may set off the closure or cancellation of 331 factories and erase $286 billion in native funding in American communities.
SEIA is organizing a Save Main Street Solar Day of Action for residential photo voltaic installers in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 17.