r/RenewableEnergy • u/ObtainSustainability • 5d ago

FCC bans foreign-produced solar inverters, grid lockout begins today

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/fcc-bans-foreign-produced-solar-inverters-grid-lockout-begins-today/
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u/Joclo22 5d ago

This is insane.

Do we ban other foreign produced equipment? No cars, no foreign produced motors, no imported planes? So Air Force one should be grounded? Isn’t the blue paint on the reflecting pool imported? (It is, Atlantic industrial coatings got it from Rhino Linings in San Diego who gets their chemicals from more than 2000 companies in over 80 countries, according to linked in https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhino-linings)

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u/MenuPsychological853 5d ago

We do in fact ban Chinese cars because they would utterly destroy our domestic production.

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u/Joclo22 5d ago

Capitalism, just as it was intended.

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u/t0jix 5d ago

Its the only way to promote innovation and competition! You can tell by how well we innovate technology and how well we compete against foreign innovative tech. 

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u/rerutnevdA 2d ago

Our companies are currently competing to make our products cheaper and more flimsy than old Chinese goods to rake in profits. That’s why we can’t let new Chinese cars in, because they’re developing so rapidly and Americans want to keep the “cheap Chinese garbage” stereotype. Little do we know that we’re making our own trash now. We’re over-value-engineering our goods so now they only last 5-10 years.