In the draft "Reconstruction of Better Infrastructure Plan" issued by the Senate Finance Committee, domestic manufacturing of solar photovoltaic and system balancing components will be eligible for awards.
JinkoSolar's manufacturing facility is located in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Senate Finance Committee released a draft "Better Rebuild" (BBB) infrastructure bill, which contains preliminary incentives for domestic solar photovoltaic wafers, cells, modules, trackers and inverters. Committee chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) is expected to lead the dialogue when the committee holds a bipartisan meeting on the bill.
The bill includes incentives for the manufacture of thin-film photovoltaic or crystalline photovoltaic cells. The reward will pay $0.04 per watt of DC capacity of the battery. Photovoltaic silicon wafers are priced at US$12 per square meter, solar-grade polysilicon is priced at US$3 per kilogram, and solar modules made in the United States are discounted at US$0.07 per watt.
The tracker has been added to the bill. Structural fasteners are US$2.28 per kilogram, longitudinal purlins US$0.87 per kilogram, and structural fasteners US$2.28 per kilogram.
The inverter is also a new member of BBB. Micro inverters with a capacity of 650 W or less can be charged USD 0.11 per watt, while other residential inverters with a capacity of 20 kW or less can be charged USD 0.065 per watt. Commercial inverters with power between 20 kW and 170 kW are eligible for a reward of two cents per watt.
If the BBB is approved, utility-scale inverters with a capacity between 170 kW and 1 MW will receive a preliminary award of 0.015 USD/W, and a central inverter with a capacity greater than 1 MW will be eligible for 0.025 USD/W award.
Incentives are seen as a way to bring solar manufacturing back to land. In a recent interview with Photovoltaic Magazine, module manufacturer Maxeon stated that it is considering building a 3 GW battery production plant in the United States, but is waiting for a Title XVII loan from the Department of Energy and Senator Jon Ossoff (D -GA) US Solar Manufacturing Act . If approved, the company said it may start producing batteries in the United States as early as 2023.
Ossoff's bill will provide tax credits for several steps in the photovoltaic supply chain, including domestic manufacturing of modules, cells, and solar-grade polysilicon, as well as trackers and inverters. These incentives will last until 2028 and will gradually decrease over the next two years. On November 19, the bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and will then face review by the Senate.
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