Why it’s important

To address growing energy demand, it is important for strong federal policies to support American solar and battery storage manufacturing and rapid deployment of these resources to the electricity grid. These policies are proven job creators that have bipartisan support. The priorities are: 

• American energy dominance: The path to American energy dominance needs an “all of the above strategy” that includes strong solar and battery storage industries. 

• Eliminate dependence on China: By continuing to grow our solar industry, along with steel and electronics, we will end reliance on Chinese solar products and provide a welcome alternative source of solar panels for our international trading partners. 

• Surge American manufacturing: Strong policies to support manufacturing and domestic demand will surge our manufacturing fleet, create more jobs, and bring billions of dollars in new investments. 

• Meet the demand challenges of data centers, AI, and crypto: American innovation must have the tools it needs to compete on a global scale to meet energy demand, and solar is the key to unlocking their potential. 

• Cut red tape in the energy sector: For the U.S. to compete globally and keep the lights on at home, we must enact common-sense policies to make it easier to get new power on the grid, enable competition from new low-cost resources, and stop utilities and grid operators from dragging their feet. 

• Regulatory reform and certainty: We must eliminate wasteful and burdensome efforts to restrict infrastructure investments on federal lands, stifle competition, and impose undue EPA rules and regulations on used solar panels. 

• Keep taxes low: Bipartisan tax policies have encouraged new investments in solar energy for two decades. Solar is popular, employs over a quarter of a million Americans, and is critical to energy security and dominance. 

• Support energy choice and energy freedom: Rooftop solar and home batteries promote consumer choice and energy freedom from monopoly utilities. 

• Bring more jobs to America’s heartland: Solar project developers are incentivized to build new power plants in rural areas with local workers. Today the biggest states for solar include Texas (#2), Florida (#3), North Carolina (#4), Arizona (#5), Nevada (#6), and Georgia (#7). We owe it to these workers and communities to keep their economies strong. 

Protect private property rights: This nation was founded on strong protections for private property rights. But lawmakers are increasingly telling landowners what they can and can’t do with their own property – whether that be roofs or fields.  

What this means for your community

Enacting this agenda will give the United States control of its solar supply chain and ensure American communities benefit from solar and storage jobs and economic growth. 

Our goal

By contacting your legislators, you can add your voice to ensure that Congress supports energy policies that include growing solar power and battery storage to strengthen America’s energy independence and security.