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{"id":1920,"date":"2022-06-07T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carbonswitch-cms.site\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:59:38","slug":"biden-defense-production-act-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carbonswitch-cms.site\/biden-defense-production-act-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to boost clean energy. Here\u2019s why."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order<\/a> aimed at increasing clean energy production and manufacturing in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big story here is that the Biden administration will give the solar industry a two-year break from tariffs that were threatening to grind the entire industry to a halt. According to Rystad Energy, 64% of new solar projects were in jeopardy<\/a> due to the Commerce Department\u2019s investigation and threat of tariffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the foreseeable future, that will no longer be the case. The executive order frees up the solar industry to move ahead with its projects, and it\u2019s a highly visible sign of Biden\u2019s commitment to clean energy (they are, after all, very shiny).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But solar tariffs are just one part of humanity\u2019s climate challenge\u2014and only one of five memos issued by the White House Monday. Biden also invoked Cold-War-era production powers to move forward the markets for insulation, heat pumps, fuel cell equipment, and transformers and other grid-boosting gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In doing so, the president made this remarkable statement<\/a>: \u201cElectric heat pumps are industrial resources, materials, or critical technology items essential to the national defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remove the legal and lawmaking bits, and the president is saying it: heat pumps are national defense. And they are, in a few different fields of battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heat pumps for peace<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben has been saying this for a while now: install heat pumps, defeat Russia<\/a>. \u201cIf you want to stand with the brave people of Ukraine, you need to find a way to stand against oil and gas,\u201d McKibben wrote in the Guardian<\/em> back in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom<\/a>, McKibben called for shipping U.S.-made heat pumps to Europe, where homes running on heating oil and natural gas could swap them in and shut off the gas pipe. Whether or not that happens, the U.S. building out its capacity for producing heat pumps\u2014and the related building insulation and electrical gear that improve them\u2014could stave off future petro-state aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his article, McKibben argued that the Biden administration should invoke the Defense Production Act to achieve this goal. On Monday, Biden announced that he would do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the Defense Production Act?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to legal expert Shayan Karbassi<\/a>, the modern Defense Production Act has three main sections, allowing the president and his departments to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n