{"id":273264,"date":"2025-04-03T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/how-trumps-tariffs-could-hobble-a-u-s-battery-boom\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:39:04","slug":"how-trumps-tariffs-could-hobble-a-u-s-battery-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/how-trumps-tariffs-could-hobble-a-u-s-battery-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Tariffs Could Hobble a U.S. Battery Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The sweeping tariffs<\/a> that President Trump announced on Wednesday could hobble the use of giant batteries that energy companies are increasingly installing to help them tap more wind and solar power and make the broader electric grid more reliable.<\/p>\n

Over the past five years, grid batteries have become one of the biggest growth industries<\/a> in the U.S. energy sector. In states like Texas and Arizona, companies have been installing stacks of lithium-ion cells the size of shipping containers. They can soak up excess wind and solar energy and save it for when it\u2019s needed. In California, the use of batteries to store solar power for the evening hours has helped utilities reduce the amount<\/a> of natural gas that is burned.<\/p>\n

Yet the majority of America\u2019s lithium-ion batteries are still imported, and 69 percent of those imports came from China in 2024, according to BloombergNEF. Mr. Trump\u2019s latest round of tariffs, when combined with earlier trade moves, will impose a 64.5 percent tax on grid batteries<\/a> from China, and that rate would rise to 82 percent next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will throttle U.S. energy storage deployment,\u201d Jason Burwen, vice president of policy and strategy at the battery developer GridStor, wrote in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cBad for business, bad for grid reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n