CCP-Linked Firms Quietly Embedded in U.S. Solar Industry Backed by Democrats

As the Biden administration continues pouring hundreds of billions into “green energy” subsidies, a disturbing trend is emerging. Chinese Communist Party-linked firms are quietly securing stakes in U.S. solar companies, profiting directly from American tax dollars all while extending Beijing’s grip on critical energy infrastructure.

Despite public claims about reducing dependence on foreign adversaries, firms like Canadian Solar and T1 Energy each with deep roots in China have positioned themselves as leading beneficiaries of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The result? American taxpayers are effectively subsidizing entities controlled, influenced, or backed by the Chinese Communist Party.

One of the biggest winners under the Biden-era green agenda has been Canadian Solar, a firm founded by Chinese national Qu Xiaohua, with most of its manufacturing and assets located in China. Though headquartered in Ontario, its main operating arm is listed on the Shanghai SciTech board, and a 2025 SEC filing openly admits the CCP “may intervene or influence the operations of our PRC subsidiaries at any time.”

That didn’t stop Senate Democrats from praising the company by name in 2023, touting its $250 million investment in a Texas facility as proof the IRA was “working.” They conveniently left out the part where the company’s Chinese operations were flush with subsidies from Beijing more than $140 million, according to watchdog reports.

Even worse, Trina Solar, another Chinese solar giant, recently sold its Texas-based factory assets to a rebranded U.S. front called T1 Energy, while retaining up to 25% ownership and control over two board seats.

Let’s be clear: This isn’t free market investment. This is strategic infiltration.

• Gao Jifan, founder of Trina and a delegate to the Chinese National People’s Congress, holds leadership roles in CCP-linked industrial associations.

• Trina maintains “commercial partnerships” and licensing agreements with T1 Energy, according to SEC filings.

• A firm tied to the wife of a Trina executive, registered in the Caribbean, also holds a stake in T1 a classic shell-game tactic to dodge scrutiny.

Despite these ties, T1 markets itself as an “American company” eligible for IRA tax credits which means the CCP is directly benefitting from the Democrats’ green energy subsidies.

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, has been one of the few voices in Congress sounding the alarm.

“Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gives up to 30 tax credits to green energy manufacturers, and too many are going to entities with Chinese ownership or influence,” Moolenaar warned.

His No Gotion Act aimed at blocking IRA subsidies from reaching firms tied to countries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran is a direct response to this CCP end-run around U.S. national security safeguards.

“We can’t cede control of our critical energy infrastructure to our greatest geopolitical rival,” said Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), who likened the current blind spot to the West’s failure to act early on Huawei and TikTok.

This isn’t just a paperwork issue. Canadian Solar employs twice as many people in China as it does in the rest of the world combined. These companies aren’t hiring American workers they’re laundering Chinese industrial control through U.S. branding to secure federal tax credits and propaganda wins for the CCP.

The Biden administration may claim these policies are about sustainability, but the numbers and the ownership structures tell a different story.

• The Cicero Institute has flagged Housing First-style central planning as a disaster, and this green energy rollout appears to follow the same pattern: ideology over accountability.

• Chinese firms routinely keep equity stakes below the FEOC (Foreign Entity of Concern) threshold to bypass federal restrictions a tactic both known and tolerated by Democrats eager to score political points.

The truth is simple: China doesn’t need to build military bases on U.S. soil when it can infiltrate our energy grid through "green" shell companies, funded by your tax dollars, courtesy of the Biden administration’s open-wallet policies.

Until Congress shuts the door on CCP-tied firms exploiting American subsidies, Democrats’ green revolution may go down as one of the greatest national security blunders in U.S. history.

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