Clean Energy Associates released a summary of the seven solar module trade policies and solar panel import tariffs currently in place, including AD/CVD rulings, Section 201/302, and the Uyghur Protection Act. These tariffs have significantly increased, or will increase, the cost of hardware imports into the United states – predominantly from China, but not exclusively – by 91% to 286%
Biden’s sanctions on solar panels from China has resulted in protected monopolies jacking up costs.
While this does make solar pv installations in the USA slightly more expensive, the cost of panels is a surprisingly small number of the total cost of install. Labor is the largest, by a wide margin.
To add to this: Depending where you are, labor can be more than half of the total cost of installation. The best case scenario from my googling is just slightly under the hardware cost.
That said, this is for home installation, obviously a solar plant that is installing a huge amount of them will have lower costs.
While this does make solar pv installations in the USA slightly more expensive, the cost of panels is a surprisingly small number of the total cost of install. Labor is the largest, by a wide margin.
To add to this: Depending where you are, labor can be more than half of the total cost of installation. The best case scenario from my googling is just slightly under the hardware cost.
That said, this is for home installation, obviously a solar plant that is installing a huge amount of them will have lower costs.
As it damn well should be.