Setting minimum efficiency rates on panels that are imported; so we are importing the very best. If you allow shitty ones to be imported, we have to replace them sooner, and then end up being dependent on China for new shitty panels.
Rather than make it more expensive to import cheap solar panels, wouldn’t it be better to make the required standards more stringent. That way, if China makes tonnes of high quality cheap solar panels, US consumers can still buy them cheap while being assured of their quality.
Concurrently, the US manufacturers can figure out how to reduce costs to compete.
It just seems to me that artificially increasing prices doesn’t do very much except line the pockets of authorities and hurt the average person trying to be more green.
Not quite sure what you’re referring to here.
Setting minimum efficiency rates on panels that are imported; so we are importing the very best. If you allow shitty ones to be imported, we have to replace them sooner, and then end up being dependent on China for new shitty panels.
Rather than make it more expensive to import cheap solar panels, wouldn’t it be better to make the required standards more stringent. That way, if China makes tonnes of high quality cheap solar panels, US consumers can still buy them cheap while being assured of their quality.
Concurrently, the US manufacturers can figure out how to reduce costs to compete.
It just seems to me that artificially increasing prices doesn’t do very much except line the pockets of authorities and hurt the average person trying to be more green.
China is already the high-quality supplier.