The only 2 remaining solar panel factories are both foreign owned. And now a china company will move in.
Manufacturing is highly automated and only about 14% of solar jobs are in manufacturing while installation is labor intensive so 86% of the jobs are in installing.
Because the price of panels will be going up, many solar jobs will no longer pencil out and many will cancel, causing an estimate net job loss of 26,000 the first year.
None of this will help these companies compete on the world market. They won't be able to compete in Canada, Mexico, or North Africa.
> There are no American companies making solar panels, they
> have all gone out of business because the GOP has tried
> for years to shut down solar because coal and nat gas
> give huge sums to republicans.
While it is true that no American companies are making solar panels it’s not because of the GOP. It’s because of market forces and because the Chinese pour government funds into their solar manufacturing companies so they can operate at a loss and it’s off the books, they can fund the loss through other means, much the way IBM used to work their contracts.
What did the GOP do to “shut down solar”?
“One million solar power installations now dot America’s rooftops and landscape, an achievement being hailed as a milestone by advocates of solar energy. There were just 1,000 such projects at the turn of this century, and only six years ago, going solar cost twice as much.
Still, those one million installations deliver just 1 percent of electricity in the U.S., the world’s second-largest energy consumer after China. Globally, the figure is roughly the same. If the goal of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius is to be met, then climate-changing emissions will have to drop by as much as 70 percent by mid-century.”
We have a ways to go.