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How Trump could undermine the US solar boom

  • Written by Llewelyn Hughes, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University

Tumbling prices for solar energy have helped stoke demand among U.S. homeowners, businesses and utilities for electricity powered by the sun. But that could soon change.

President Donald Trump – whose proposed 2018 budget would slash support for alternative energy – may get a new opportunity to undermine the solar power market by...

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