{"id":26806,"date":"2017-06-28T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/energy\/destroy-the-industry-to-save-it-another-report-warns-of-section-201-cases-potentially-devastating-effects.html"},"modified":"2017-06-28T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:27:00","slug":"destroy-the-industry-to-save-it-another-report-warns-of-section-201-cases-potentially-devastating-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/energy\/destroy-the-industry-to-save-it-another-report-warns-of-section-201-cases-potentially-devastating-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroy the industry to save it? Another report warns of Section 201 case\u2019s potentially devastating effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

GTM Research’s latest report<\/a> predicts a 50% to 60% overall reduction to solar installations if trade action is taken, with the utility-scale sector taking the most significant hit.<\/p>\n

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After the indiscriminate bombing of the Vietnamese city of Ben Tre in 1968, one U.S. Army office is famously supposed to have told Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett that it had become necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.<\/p>\n

Could Suniva and SolarWorld<\/a> be pursuing their Section 201 trade complaint under the same muddled logic?<\/p>\n

For the second time in little more than a month, a report has surfaced – this time by GTM Research – that suggests a successful execution of Suniva’s petition to protect it from foreign competition under Sections 201 and 202 of the Trade Act of 1974<\/a> could produce a 50% to 66% reduction in the U.S. solar market, with the utility-scale pipeline taking the most significant hit initially.<\/p>\n

GTM Research suggests one of two outcomes depending on how<\/em> the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and President Donald J. Trump’s administration decide to handle the complaint:<\/p>\n