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Ron Leonard

Ron Leonard

Chairman at RenewableEnergyCoalition.org and founder of NYSEIA, longtime solar and renewable energy developer and advocate based in Woodstock, NY.

Aug 6, 2026

105:27
What about the panels?
105:28
Um, uh, this, what we are hearing, this is not confirmed, is that, uh, there is a, uh, adoption of a proposal, uh, starting in a couple of weeks that will make it uneconomic to bring in panels from China, so to speak, both because there is a concern of federal government of, um, a acronym called FIOC, uh, foreign entity of concern.
105:55
In other words, something made outside the United States could threat our grid.
106:00
Uh, and uh, they're going to make it uneconomic for you to buy panels or inverters.
106:07
The inverters are more a restriction, and, uh, that will start this summer.
106:13
Uh, good news is we have enough production in the United States, 60 gigawatts of solar panels and plenty of batteries.
106:21
So that should not pose a problem to, with the rapid adoption of all this technology.

6 MINS LATER

112:44
I can go out for two grand or less, um, buy a single solar panel, or, or three or four, and put them in my backyard with a battery and get the inverter and never worry about my refrigerator, uh, or my computer going down, right? Ron Leonard, you built the industry.

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