With World ‘On Fire,’ Sunrun Wants Speedy Tariff Probe Decision

The head of the biggest U.S. residential-solar company says the Commerce Department should issue a prompt preliminary decision into a tariff probe that it warns threatens to make panels more expensive.

“The planet’s on fire,” Mary Powell, chief executive officer of Sunrun Inc., said in an interview Wednesday. “We need to be thinking about ‘How do we radically collaborate to move faster?’ not ‘How do we slow things down? How do we make things more expensive?’”