Saatvik Green Energy, one of India’s biggest solar module makers by capacity, said on Thursday it is shunning the once-promising U.S. export market as it is no longer “worth the risk” due to the thorny tariff issue
There’s the tarrifs and theres the bizarre anti-renewable energy sentiment harbored by the current administration.
Personally, I think that’s just coming from power utilities pushing the idea that, “it’s cool if WE build a solar array but it’s not cool if YOU do it.”
No, it’s stupidier and more nakedly corrupt. Fossil fuel companies gave Trump over a billion dollars in political donations, and fossil fuel jobs look “manly” and have “big trucks.”
That’s about it. He can appeal to rural voters in rural states working dying jobs while the companies he gives trillions in subsides to give him billions in donations back. For that, he’ll kill the planet faster and trap millions in low wage, dangerous jobs instead of just letting solar and wind naturally ramp up.
This good overall…
Places like I did and China still have in home coal burning, which is fucking terrible for the whole planet.
Getting them onto solar helps a lot more than getting Americans on solar.
Not only does at home coal use require more coal, there’s zero pollution mitigation. At a plant at least there’s some and there’s inspectionz.
Are these likely to be used to get people off home coal though? To do that you need to replace the infrastructure that uses coal with electric. That’s no small undertaking.