Suspicious Chinese solar equipment should have lawmakers considering pragmatism over politics
Reuters reported this month that rogue communication devices have been found in Chinese solar power inverters
Energy reliability is energy security, and Sarah McFarlane from Reuters has a story on suspicious solar equipment that everyone thinking about energy, and energy security, should read.
Without jumping to conclusions, it's clearly a reminder that supply chains matter. Moreover, as lawmakers contemplate changes to the IRA, consider what will be lost if U.S. attempts to bring energy infrastructure manufacturing back onshore are derailed.
America currently doesn't make enough of anything domestically to be truly energy dominant. From copper, or any other critical material, to transmission lines and transformers, to specialized pipes and pipeline. The list goes on and on.
Now that there is a national security imperative to scale AI infrastructure, the need to incentivize domestic production-all forms of energy, as well as the equipment needed to produce it-means we need to put pragmatism ahead of politics.
Read more about our take on Energy Pragmatism from Dave Samson.