President Joe Biden is using his executive powers Monday to boost the domestic production of solar panels and their parts and will issue a 24-month tariff exemption on imports of the products from several countries. The White House said Biden will authorize the use of the Defense Production Act to accelerate manufacturing of solar panels in the United States as a way to strengthen the administration's efforts to shift the country toward clean energy. — NBC News
Invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) allows the President to order private businesses to prioritize the production of materials deemed necessary for national defense. Aside from accelerating the domestic production of solar panels, Biden is using the Act to rapidly expand American manufacturing of building insulation, heat pumps for buildings, equipment for making and using clean electricity-generated fuels, and critical power grid infrastructure.
The White House also signaled its intention to direct the development of master supply agreements to increase the speed and efficiency by which domestic clean electricity providers can sell their products to the U.S. Government.
Furthermore, this move includes an order to establish a two-year tariff exemption for solar panel imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam in order to meet the U.S.’s immediate energy demands while domestic manufacturing scales up.
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