Silver State Times

While U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) is pleased with President Joe Biden administration’s exclusion of bifacial panels from Section 201 tariffs, she criticized the White House for partially extending the tariffs.

Rosen said in a release issued by her office earlier this month that the administration decided to extend the tariffs on imported solar panels and cells, which she believes is a blow to Nevada’s solar economy, the largest in the country.

“I appreciate the Biden administration heeding my call to exclude bifacial panels from tariffs and also increasing the number of allowable imported solar cells, recognizing the importance of technological advancements in solar and how vital these imported panels and cells are to American jobs in this industry,” the senator said in the release. “At the same time, the overall decision to extend these harmful tariffs is disappointing and remains the wrong approach because it will harm America’s clean energy economy by unnecessarily hindering domestic solar projects and raising costs, while failing to incentivize domestic manufacturing.”

Rosen last month headed a bipartisan group of senators in calling on the president to not extend the tariffs, according to the release.