Abigail Ross Hopper was in unfamiliar territory.
As CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, the industry’s leading trade group, she didn’t expect to be lining up against an administration with arguably the most ambitious clean energy and climate goals in U.S. history.
But the Department of Commerce’s decision to open an investigation based on the Auxin Solar petition, and whether modules imported from Southeast Asia are skirting duties against China, presented what was seen as an immediate, existential threat to SEIA’s member companies.
