The U.S. Solar Boom Is Still Facing Some Major Roadblocks

The United States is making a major bid to become competitive with China in clean energy supply chains. After neglecting domestic renewable energy manufacturing and production capacity for decades thanks to a powerful combination of cheap shale oil and gas and systematic inertia, the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act seeks to put the United States back at the forefront of the global energy sector.

But overcoming reliance on China, which currently dominates supply chains for solar panels and key rare earth minerals, won’t…