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What happened to all the solar tariffs folks were stressing about?

• stusmall 8y ago
  It's in the article: They also show that the efforts of the Trump administration to prop up fossil fuels at the expense of renewables aren’t enough to push solar out to sea. The tariffs that Trump levied earlier this year against cheap solar panels imported from China could eventually dampen installations. Naam said they add roughly 10 percent to the price of utility-scale projects, but “at most, they move the price of solar back by about a year.” It's still a significant cost added on and slows things down, but you can only do so much damage.
• rsynnott 8y ago
  Those will have a lagging effect.