Made in USA Solar Panels and Anti-Fake-Meat Laws
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US Solar Factories Strike Deal to Produce 'Made in USA' Panels
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Two small solar manufacturers on Wednesday said they are joining forces to make panels that will enable their customers, U.S. solar project developers, to collect on a lucrative new federal subsidy for American-made clean energy equipment.
The agreement between Georgia-based solar cell producer Suniva and Canada's Heliene, which has panel-making operations in Minnesota, is being touted by the Biden administration as evidence that Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies are succeeding in building a domestic solar manufacturing industry to compete with China.
"Before this Administration, solar companies across the United States were struggling," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who will visit Suniva's Norcross, Georgia, facility later on Wednesday, said in a statement provided to Reuters. She noted that 20% of U.S. solar manufacturing jobs were lost between 2016 and 2020.
Suniva itself is restarting an idled factory.
"Now, though there remain significant challenges, Inflation Reduction Act tax credits are helping change the game," Yellen added.
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