The Solar Energy Industries Association said [2] this case unnecessarily put the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk. Solar energy accounted for 3.4 percent of total US electricity generation in 2022, [6] up from 1.3 percent five years earlier. China dominates the global supply chains for solar energy, with its global share in all the manufacturing stages of solar panels exceeding 80 percent. For over a decade, solar supply chains have been a focus of US policy. Therefore, while innovation has led to the rapid decline in the costs of solar energy, tariffs have made solar in the US more expensive than it would have been otherwise.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 13, 2023 16:09 UTC