CPA’s new solar report, The U.S. Solar Supply Chain 2025: Building a Strong and Resilient American Solar Industry, highlights the urgent challenges facing domestic solar manufacturing despite over a decade of tariffs, federal incentives, and private investment. The report reveals how massive Chinese overproduction and predatory trade practices have flooded the U.S. market with cheap imports, crippling demand for domestically produced modules. It warns that without decisive policy action, the U.S. risks losing its solar manufacturing base entirely. The report also outlines key recommendations to strengthen U.S. solar production, secure supply chains, and ensure America’s energy independence. With the right policies in place, the U.S. solar industry can thrive as a cornerstone of America’s renewable energy future.
Biden’s signature climate change-related spending policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, is said to be going under the knife once Trump takes office in January. But with Republican districts now full of solar, and solar manufacturing facilities, the real risk is changes to the so-called 45X tax credit.
A new solar company called Ebon Solar has secured a $10 million grant from the state of New Mexico, along with $1 million in financing and another $1 billion in a state-backed bond, to build an 834,000-square-foot solar cell manufacturing facility near Albuquerque.
The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday made a significant preliminary determination in its investigation into solar imports from Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand, confirming illegal trade practices through foreign subsidies.
