by Emma Foehringer Merchant

June 10, 2019 June 10, 2019

The U.S. solar industry is staring down a decline in the federal Investment Tax Credit, which starts to drop from 30 percent next year and will reach a permanent 10 percent in 2022 (or nothing for customer-owned systems).

The industry’s main trade group, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), has made working toward an ITC extension its “number one priority.”

But solar developers are wary of banking on an uncertain outcome in Congress.