Ben Santarris
Berkeley report endorses all-electric fire rebuilding
Study finds all-electric reconstruction of California’s fire-ravaged towns, compared with “dual-fuel” rebuilding with electricity and natural gas, is cheaper, faster, healthier and safer.
U.S. Commerce Department slaps unexpectedly high tariffs on solar imports
Coalition trade lawyer says the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final tariffs on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are among the highest rates he’s ever seen.
Judge blocks EPA, unlocks green bank
A federal district court judge barred the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing its own green bank loans, including one for an affordable housing project in Oregon.
Familiar factions clash in final trade hearing
Testimony turns on whether U.S. solar imports from Southeast Asia have materially harmed the domestic production industry and whether solar modules and cells are like products.
Speculation on next trade cases focuses on Indonesia and Laos
The latest federal import data shows a dramatic swing from four countries whose U.S. solar imports are targeted by trade duties to two countries whose U.S. solar trade is unlitigated.
Four GOP senators resist IRA tax-credit repeal
Four Republican senators pen letter of opposition to full-scale repeal of energy tax credits contained within the Inflation Reduction Act to incentivize renewable energy manufacturing, development and use.
Two U.S. solar production projects out of commission
SPI’s panel-manufacturing plant in California has suddenly ceased operation and its cell-production site in South Carolina never got off the ground.
Global path leads to solar manufacturing in Indianapolis
Lead quality engineer of Bila Solar shares with pv magazine USA his photovoltaic path from India to the United States to China and back again to embrace solar ingenuity and excitement he deems sure to keep spreading.
Commerce finds Chinese cross-border subsidies, hikes proposed duties on imports from Vietnam
The U.S. Department of Commerce dramatically raised tariffs on imports from Chinese solar producers operating in Vietnam after the agency concluded that China is subsidizing raw materials for its companies to use in their Vietnamese factories.
Ruling: EPA barred from seizing Green Bank funds
Nonprofit recipients of $14 billion in federal grants and loans will keep up court fight in hopes of winning release of approved grants for solar and other clean-energy projects nationwide.
