{"id":840953,"date":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solarbuildermag.com\/?p=48820"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","slug":"cant-blame-ira-prevailing-wage-requirements-have-no-impact-on-large-project-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/cant-blame-ira-prevailing-wage-requirements-have-no-impact-on-large-project-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t blame IRA | Prevailing wage requirements have no impact on large project costs"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar labor costs are high and rising, driving \u201castronomical\u201d bids from EPCs, but market fundamentals, not the IRA\u2019s prevailing wage requirements, are to blame, experts told Solar Builder Magazine. The IRA requires all laborers and mechanics employed by a developer or subcontractor constructing, altering, or repairing a solar project over 1 MW to be paid&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/solarbuildermag.com\/projects\/cant-blame-ira-prevailing-wage-no-impact-on-large-project-costs\/\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Solar Builder magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,9666],"tags":[4737,16724,15233,2906,5040,16710,9974,1226,6599],"class_list":["post-840953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leed-news","category-solar-power-energy","tag-featured","tag-inflation-reduction-act-ira","tag-intersect-power","tag-news","tag-nrel","tag-prevailing-wages","tag-projects","tag-seia","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}