Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) president and CEO, Abigail Ross Harper, said the "long-term incentives for clean energy deployment and manufacturing" in the Act meant "the solar and storage industry can create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and get to work building out the next era of American energy leadership." "The Inflation Reduction Act is ground-breaking for our industry and exactly what we need to accelerate the clean energy transition," said Meghan Nutting, executive VP for Government and Regulatory Affairs at residential solar installer Sunnova, adding the Act would present opportunities to proliferate the adoption of distributed energy resources like solar and storage. Solar tracker manufacturer Nextracker said it "strongly supports the Inflation Reduction Act, which will immediately increase hiring at our US factories". Its CEO and founder Dan Shugar said, "energy independence and decoupling from overseas inflation factors has never been more important.