An increase in shipping times and freight rates due to violence in the Red Sea could carry implications for renewable energy and solar products heading to Europe and the US.
US solar tracker manufacturer Nextracker has seen high deliveries in its US business with a 70% year-on-year increase in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2024, driving 38% quarterly revenue growth.
In 2023, a collective US$1.8 trillion went towards energy transition technologies and their supply chains, including solar PV and other renewable generation, grids, electrified transport and clean tech factories.
Earlier this month California-based solar manufacturer Auxin Solar announced that it was suing the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and Customs & Border Patrol over unclaimed payments from the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs.
Over the last six months, two major US utilities – American Electric Power (AEP) and Duke Energy – have been selling off their commercial solar PV assets to private investment groups and consolidating their operations in regulated markets.