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ALTERNATIVE POWER REPORT

The recent USA presidential elections suggest that the USA will embrace its status as the world’s leading gasoline state, while previous gasoline states like Saudi Arabia plough vast sums into the energy of the future, renewables.

The USA ceded manufacturing of the technologies required for fighting climate change — solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles, heat pumps, transformers, and more — to other countries, mostly China, over the past 40 years.

Under President Biden, the USA enacted massive and unprecedented tariffs to protect the remaining industries, working to keep American money at home. President-elect Donald Trump apparently will increase tariffs, according to statements he and other Republicans have made over the past year. These tariffs would be placed on imports from long-standing free-trade neighbors like Canada and Mexico.

Source: Clean Technica: Read The Article

PSR Analysis: If President-elect Trump does take America down this path, there is a suggestion that US alternative power/renewables industries will follow the fate of US innovation. Until recently, the USA led the world in innovation, but now foreign students are returning to their countries and being welcomed to do research with big budgets.  PSR

Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research