First Solar Urges US to Get Tough on Trade as Module Prices Sink
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The Biden administration needs to toughen trade enforcement to guard against unfair competition from Chinese solar suppliers as module prices plummet to record lows, according to the chief of the biggest US panel maker.
“If no one else wants to hold them accountable, I think the US needs to — for its own strategic rationale,” First Solar Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Widmar said in an interview Wednesday. “We need domestic capabilities, and renewable energy is one of them.”