Another quarter of record solar deployments is in the books. Deployments reached 5.7 gigawatts (GWdc) of installed capacity across all market segments in Q2 2021 – the largest Q2 on record. Installations in Q2 brought the 2021 total to nearly 11 GWdc through the first half of the year. But this hardly tells the full story. In Q2, it became more apparent how continued supply chain constraints and trade action headwinds are negatively impacting the US solar industry.