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  • SEIA: Clarity needed in these areas to best implement IRA

    The Inflation Reduction Act is law, and now the real fun begins — implementing it. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) filed responses to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s request for public comments on the clean energy tax provisions, highlighting key areas in which clarity is most needed. “The clean energy tax credit provisions……

  • 240 solar companies call for rejection of anti-circumvention petition

    With the Inflation Reduction Act celebrations over, the solar industry is back to focusing on the anti-circumvention trade case. The deadline is approaching for a decision from the Department of Commerce, and more than 240 solar and storage companies are imploring Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject the petition for new anti-circumvention tariffs on solar products….…

  • Code crisis averted: ICC ready to designate solar, storage as Risk Category 2

    In a release of preliminary results on the 2024 ICC Building Code online governmental vote, the International Code Council’s (ICC) members have approved two compromise proposals from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that designate solar and storage projects as Risk Category 2 infrastructure. Without SEIA’s proposals, S79-22 and S81-22, a proposal from the Federal……

  • Solar industry grows by 43 percent in 2020, on pace to quadruple by 2030

    The U.S. solar industry grew 43% and installed a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of capacity in 2020, according to the ‘U.S. Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review’ report, released by Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). For the second year in a row, solar led all technologies inRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Congress to extend solar investment tax credit as part of COVID-19 relief package

    Congress has apparently reached agreement on broad end-of-year legislation that includes significant benefits for solar energy. The full legislative package combines a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package and an omnibus spending bill for 2021 with tax extenders and energy policy changes. The legislation provides a two-year extension of the solar InvestmentRead More — Solar Builder magazine