SolarCity will buy between 100MW-240MW of REC’s Peak Energy modules in the year from fourth-quarter 2014, it announced today.

Tanguy Serra, SolarCity’s chief operating officer, pointedly notes that REC Solar’s modules are “US-trade compliant”.

Many in the US solar industry worry that installation companies will see their operating costs take a hit in the event the US finalizes the tariffs on Chinese and Taiwanese PV kit it announced earlier this week.

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