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WASHINGTON D.C. — Following is an announcement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation (SEIA), on President Biden’s State of the Union handle:
“Tonight, the president made clear that producing electrical energy from diversified vitality sources is the one approach we’ll be capable to meet America’s growing demand for electrical energy.
“Final 12 months, greater than half of the electrical energy added to the grid capability got here from photo voltaic, the primary time in 80 years {that a} renewable vitality supply accounted for a majority of annual capability additions.
“Practically half of all photo voltaic capability on the grid in the present day has been put in within the final three years, producing over $120 billion of personal funding and hundreds of jobs throughout all 50 states.
“Professional-business, pro-growth clear vitality legal guidelines handed below this administration have executed extra for home photo voltaic manufacturing than any program or coverage in U.S. historical past. If we keep the course with these insurance policies, photo voltaic deployment will quadruple, and America’s photo voltaic manufacturing workforce will develop to 100,000 jobs over the following decade. We’ve got the legal guidelines in place we have to break away from our reliance on imports and construct a powerful, American-made vitality future that helps us breathe cleaner air and lead more healthy lives.
“The transition to wash vitality is a chance to create jobs, construct up the center class, reverse a long time of environmental injustice and construct a extra inclusive vitality economic system. The photo voltaic and storage business will add over half a trillion {dollars} to the economic system over the following decade, and we’re targeted on guaranteeing each American advantages from this financial increase.
“We’ve got extra work to do to completely understand a future powered by renewables. We help President Biden’s clear vitality imaginative and prescient and look ahead to persevering with this work all through 2024 and past.”
About SEIA®: The Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality economic system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to realize 30% of U.S. electrical energy technology by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member corporations and different strategic companions to battle for insurance policies that create jobs in each neighborhood and form honest market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by analysis, training and advocacy. Go to SEIA on-line at www.seia.org and comply with @SEIA on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Courtesy of SEIA.
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