Large Scale Solar PV Projects at Risk, While California Powers On

Large Scale Solar PV Projects at Risk, While California Powers On

After investigation held by the U.S International Trade Commission, it was found that solar equipment manufactured in china contained cells that were coming from third party countries (Taiwan). This act of avoiding payment of subsidy duties was suspicious. Hence, the U.S Department of Commerce proposed anti-subsidy and anti-dumping rulings. This trade dispute had a major impact on the U.S solar PV projects. Based on the analysis performed by Christine Beadle, both the small scale and the large scale solar industries are suffering from this dispute. According to the numbers provided by the United states Deal Tracker, California has the most dominant solar PV project. California exceeds in both capacity and number of project pipelines when compared to other states in the U.S. Finally Beadle wrote “downstream diversity … is one of its strengths; as it allows different customer and application segments opportunities to grow in a variety of regions within the greatest US market”. So while the impact of the trade dispute exists among these solar PV projects, the pipelines have existing success.