Solar Makers Battered by Trump’s Policies Are Ready to Counterpunch

Bloomberg.com · last updated September 13, 2025 – 5:19 AM

Welcome to our guide to the commodities powering the global economy. Today, reporter Mark Chediak discusses how the US solar industry is responding to hostile White House policies.

At Solar Fight Night, a staged boxing match at the biggest US clean energy conference, Solar beats Coal every time. But this year, some attendees of the annual RE+ event in Las Vegas lamented that the real antagonist didn’t enter the ring: President Donald Trump.

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