Solar stocks tumble overnight as Trump leads in election results

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Copper Mountain Solar successful El Dorado Valley, pictured connected Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, successful Boulder City, Nevada. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Solar stocks sold disconnected overnight arsenic investors spot Donald Trump starring successful the U.S. statesmanlike election.

Solar stocks are falling connected fears that a imaginable Trump triumph would spell occupation for the Inflation Reduction Act, which has fueled a cleanable vigor roar successful the U.S. done taxation credits to grow star energy.

The benchmark Invesco Solar ETF was down 7% successful overnight trading connected brokerage Robinhood. The star sheet shaper First Solar tumbled 8% overnight. Residential star stocks Sunrun and Sunnova fell 6% and 2.6%, respectively. Inverter shaper Enphase tumbled 5% and Nextracker was down astir 5%.

Trump's run level calls for the termination of the IRA, which helium refers to arsenic the "Socialist Green New Deal." The IRA is 1 of President Joe Biden's signature achievements. The instrumentality passed connected party-line ballot successful 2022 without immoderate Republican support.

Trump is starring successful the electoral assemblage and is projected to triumph the cardinal plaything authorities of North Carolina, according to NBC News. The aboriginal of the IRA, however, volition beryllium not lone connected whether Trump wins the White House, but whether Republicans besides unafraid power of Congress.

Kamala Harris' run seat Jen O'Malley Dillon told unit successful an email Tuesday that the clearest way to triumph for the vice president lies successful the alleged Blue Wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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