Biden to use executive action to spark stalled solar projects amid tariff probe -sources

Clean Energy Technologies

06/06/2022 02:59

By Jeff Mason
    WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will use
executive action on Monday to seek to bridge a solar panel
supply gap and kickstart stalled U.S. solar projects after a
Commerce Department probe effectively froze imports from key
foreign suppliers, sources familiar with the matter said.
    Biden also will invoke the Defense Production Act to spur
U.S. manufacturing of solar panels and other clean technologies
in the future with the support of loans and grants, the sources
said.

 (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Additional reporting by Nichola
Groom; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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