WASHINGTON, DC – Monday (6/6/2022), the United States gets into a complicated energy crisis.
That’s the meaning of the declaration of the President of the United States (U.S.) Joe Biden states that his country is experiencing an energy emergency. He also said various problems that might occur to the United States, such as instability of national security and deteriorating quality of life due to the electricity supply crisis.
Biden used the Defense Production Act. He asked to increase the production of solar panels to save the United States from the electricity supply crisis.
He also blamed the Russia-Ukrainian conflict, which caused the country to be unable to meet the electricity needs of its citizens.
The increasing reliance on renewable energy sources is suspected of causing disruptions to electrical services in states such as Texas and California. Solar and wind power supply are unstable, so periods of high demand are not always matched by sufficient supply.
One of the reasons is that the wind turbine power supply is blocked during a freezing phase in the winter like last year in Texas, which resulted in mass blackouts resulting in $195 billion in losses and other damages.
Biden declared an energy emergency, so He granted a two-year exemption from solar panel tariffs from four Southeast Asian countries.
The tariffs proposed by the United States could cause major solar projects in the United States to be delayed.
Almost three-quarters of the United States’s solar modules are imported from Southeast Asia.
The president blamed various impacts on his country such as record high fuel prices and a spike in US inflation to its highest level in 40 years and the global food crisis that occurred.