The U.S. Trade Representative said Friday it was eliminating a loophole granted about four months ago for bifacial solar panels, which generate electricity on both sides. They’ll now be subject to the duties Trump announced on imported equipment in early 2018, currently at 25%. Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world […]
Greenland cold-shoulders Donald Trump’s reported buyer’s wish
Donald Trump has expressed interest in the self-governing part of Denmark — which is mostly covered in ice The US’s northern-most military base, Thule Air Base, has been located on Greenland for decades Greenland is not for sale, the mineral-rich island said Friday, after a newspaper reported that US President Donald Trump was asking advisers […]
Trump EPA rolls back Obama rule on coal-fired power plants
The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation’s electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that gives states leeway in […]
Solar Exports from India to US to Incur 25% Safeguard Duty
The US on Friday announced its decision to end preferential tariffs to $5.6 billion of Indian exports from June 5 after determining that it has not assured the US that it will provide “equitable and reasonable access to its markets.” “I have determined that India has not assured the US that it will provide equitable […]
Companies seek carbon tax from U.S. Congress
Representatives from more than 70 companies met with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to push for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change, and a senator said bipartisan legislation containing such a plan could be introduced in weeks. The gathering, which included PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson, Tesla and General Mills, was the largest business […]
An Unexpected Current That’s Remaking American Politics
New forms of electricity storage are making the grid more renewable and more reliable—and may change the politics of climate change. At the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington this month, President Donald Trump made news with some curious remarks about wind power. What went viral was his untrue suggestion that the noise […]
‘Obvious benefits’ of ITC for energy storage could even meet Trump’s energy resiliency aims
A push to establish an Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for energy storage has not only been welcomed by clean energy advocates and the industry, but might also meet the some stated aims of the Trump administration’s energy policies, an analyst has said. Michael Doyle, a Democrat, has proposed in the US House of Representatives the […]
‘I Know a Lot About Wind’: Donald Trump Finally Tells the Truth, While Lying
Trump has a history of objecting to windmills, presumably because he doesn’t like competition when it comes to making noise. Let no man say that the 45th President of the United States doesn’t tell it like it is. Donald Trump tells it like it is, if ‘it’ refers to a Reddit conspiracy thread. Trump has […]
Donald Trump spinning yarns about wind turbine and its effect
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has been widely criticised by world leaders for its likely impact on international climate policy and efforts to meet targets for emission reductions outlined in the Agreement. During a speech at a Republican fundraiser, Trump told his supporters that the sound generated by a wind turbine […]
Fact Checking President Trump’s Assessment of Wind Power and Electric Vehicles
POTUS: “When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric.” U.S. President Donald Trump mocked renewable energy at yesterday’s campaign rally in Michigan. Implicating Hillary Clinton as part of Big Wind, Trump said, “If Hillary got in… you’d be doing wind. Windmills. Weeeee. And if it doesn’t blow, you can forget about television […]