Andrew Campbell on How U.S. Tariff Policy Could Drive Up Costs for California’s Clean-Energy Transition

“Andrew Campbell, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Energy Institute at Haas, said that while reciprocal tariffs were not the biggest driver of energy bills, they had been a ‘significant contributor’ to higher costs for large-scale clean energy projects in California. Striking them down, he explained, should make new solar projects somewhat cheaper and provide a modest, ‘cumulative’ benefit on customers’ bills over the next decade.

‘If the tariffs remain gone, then that would cause a little bit of a reduction in the cost of new solar projects, and I would expect that that cost savings would generally come to consumers in California,’ Campbell said.”

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