Solar Hyperbole?

Three weeks after the Trump administration imposed a 30 percent tariff on imported solar energy cells and panels, the president claimed that “a lot of places are opening up” to “make solar panels again.” Two weeks later, he said that “we’re opening up at least five plants,” and by mid-April, the number had grown to “seven or eight.”

But solar energy experts told us they knew of just one new announced facility since the tariffs were implemented.

We asked the White House press office for a list of the “seven or eight” plants, but we have not received a response. We will update this article if we do.

“As of now we only have a definitive announcement for, a nonresident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, told us.