Trump’s solar tariff isn’t hurting the industry as much as everyone expected

Enlarge / Solar panels, Ferrisburgh, Vermont, June 15, 2016. (credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) On Thursday, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) published a quarterly report that offered surprising results. Despite a 30-percent tariff on solar cells and modules imported to the US, solar installations only fell by about nine percent, year over year. At the same time, during the first half of 2018, utilities signed more than 8.5 gigawatts' worth of procurement deals for projects that will be completed before 2020. The effect is that US solar installment growth in 2018 and 2019 will likely remain flat year over year compared to 2017. That's better than most analysts expected. There are a few reasons that President Trump's tariffs haven't had as much of an effect as they could have. According to Abigail Ross Hopper, SEIA's president and CEO, "the solar industry is simply too strong to be kept down." That's perhaps an…

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