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Unraveling the IRA’s domestic content rules

Clean Energy Associates (CEA) made a presentation in a recent pv magazine webinar about domestic content bonuses available under the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). CEA Senior Policy Analyst Christian Roselund provides some takeaways.

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pv magazine

07 Sep 2023

With differing standards for manufactured products and materials such as steel, the terms of the Inflation Reduction Act leave some ambiguity as to the requirements to be considered “US-made.” | Photo: Nextracker

The IRA sets two requirements for the domestic content bonus of its tax credits. First, all structural steel in new products must be US-made (the “steel and iron” test). And second, 40% to 55% of the cost of manufactured products in solar, battery, and wind installations – including the labor costs required to make them …

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