Tag: SolarAPP

  • Virginia county cuts red tape to revive solar installations. Will it work?

    Via Energy News Network — One by one, tiny solar companies abandoned their rooftop ambitions in Prince William, defeated by tangles of red tape in the booming Northern Virginia county. Undeterred, Ray Masavage, owner of CAVU Solar since 2018, hung in there. Why? It pained him to see seas of array-less houses in sprawling subdivisions……

  • Colorado approves streamlined solar permitting process

    For any state or region hoping to add more solar energy, a modern, streamlined permitting process can have a big impact. The Colorado Legislature has taken note and passed a bipartisan bill to establish the Streamlined Solar Permitting and Inspection Grant Program. This will provide nearly $1 million to help local governments with startup costs……

  • San Francisco pilots SolarAPP+ to speed residential solar permitting

    The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is now piloting SolarAPP+, a web-based application enabling California licensed contractors to bypass upfront plan review and obtain an instant, online electrical permit for qualifying rooftop solar installations of 10 kWdc or less on single or two-family homes. “The best way to increase sustainable development is to remove……