US solar trade group Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) announced on Wednesday that predictions for solar production installations in the United States in 2022 and 2023 had been cut by 46%, or 24 GW, as a result of the circumvention lawsuit against solar imports from Southeast Asia, Renewables Now reports.
In the year 2021, the solar power sector installed 23.6 GW DC of solar PV capacity.
According to a poll carried out by the US solar trade group, including over 700 people, 318 projects totaling 51 GW of solar capacity and 6 GWh of collocated battery storage are being canceled or delayed, putting USD 52 billion (EUR 49 billion) in private investment at risk. More than 200 enterprises claim that their whole workforce is in jeopardy, and 70% of respondents believe that at least half of their solar and storage employment is in jeopardy.
If tariffs are applied, we will lose 100,000 American solar employees in the blink of an eye, as well as all chances of meeting the President’s clean energy targets, according to SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper.
The US Department of Commerce said at the end of March that it will launch an inquiry to see if solar imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam are avoiding taxes on Chinese cells and modules.