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Risking progress

While changes to US clean energy tax credits and other restrictions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) create a new level of uncertainty, US solar and energy storage manufacturers vow to march on with the previously planned buildout of domestic solar manufacturing capacity.

By

Anne Fischer

04 Aug 2025

Members of the Heliene team attended the recent opening of the company’s module manufacturing facility in Minnesota.

Image: Heliene

Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, the United States has experienced a big uptick in manufacturing across the solar supply chain, with an estimated 98 new solar and storage manufacturing facilities coming online and another 51 under active construction, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). As of June …

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