"President Joe Biden will invoke the Defense Production Act on Monday to increase domestic production of solar panel components and other technologies in support of his green energy agenda. The White House announced the set of executive actions as domestic solar developers and manufacturers face off over an active Commerce Department investigation weighing new tariffs on solar imports, which developers say is hampering their projects and threatening Biden's goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The DPA will cover the manufacture of photovoltaic modules, which are a central component of solar panels, as well as heat pumps and equipment for building electrolyzers and fuel cells. Biden will also invoke emergency authority to create a two-year "bridge" preventing the imposition of new tariffs to ensure solar developers have access to solar product imports while manufacturing grows, the White House said.

Nick Iacovella, senior vice president of public affairs for the Coalition for a Prosperous America, which represents U.S. producers and manufacturers, said the DPA announcement is positive but complained the White House moved forward without consulting U.S. module manufacturers.

"All of the U.S. manufacturers are pissed at this," Iacovella said. "What they're saying in this announcement is, even if Commerce rules that the Chinese, what they're doing is illegal, that they are illegally circumventing the [duties], they're going to give them a free pass."

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