National solar container policies are intensively released

September 2025 brings major US solar policy shifts, from ITC guidance and tariffs to state battles over net metering, storage, and permitting. Solar policy – The U.S. solar industry entered September with a wave of major policy developments at the federal and state levels. From revised federal guidance on the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) to state battles over net metering and renewable standards, these updates will shape the trajectory of. — Today the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is unveiling a new policy agenda that details the critical actions that local, state, and federal leaders must take to strengthen the reliability of America’s electric grid with solar and storage technologies. As the Trump Administration. The confluence of an uncertain future for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), escalating import tariffs and evolving state-level responses threaten to reshape the economic and growth trajectory of both commercial and industrial (C&I) and community solar projects. This article outlines the core. On August 15, the Dept. of the Treasury released new solar ITC safe harbor guidance in response to a July executive order from President Donald Trump. The new guidance restricts projects larger than 1.5 MW from using the 5% safe harbor — requiring big projects to use the Physical Work Test to safe. During the week of July 28, the Trump administration unleashed a new burst of actions aimed squarely at blocking wind and solar energy with the announcement of two new secretarial orders (SO) and three new policies by the Department of the Interior (DOI), plus one from the Department of. The document lists eight policy areas that SEIA said are ‘critical’ for local, state and federal authorities . Image: Erlend Bjørtvedt, Wikimedia Commons. The US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released a policy blueprint that it claims would “strengthen the reliability of America’s.