Supply Chain Woes Slow U.S. Solar Boom

Trade and supply chain barriers continue to slow progress in U.S. solar power expansion, despite the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which was designed to boost clean energy capacity rollouts, a quarterly report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie showed on Tuesday. The United States added 4.6 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in the third quarter of this year, down by 17% compared to the same period of 2021, the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q4 2022 report found.   As a result of supply constraints, the…