WASHINGTON, D.C. — At present the Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation (SEIA) was accredited by the American Nationwide Requirements Institute (ANSI) to develop 11 new photo voltaic and vitality storage requirements, lower than two months after being accredited as an Accredited Requirements Improvement Group.

The accredited proposals, which seem within the newest ANSI Requirements Motion publication, embody requirements for residential and business and industrial set up necessities, provide chain traceability, client safety, decommissioning, recycling and finish of life administration, in addition to coaching for set up, operations and upkeep, and well being and security.

“Because the photo voltaic and storage business quickly grows, managing our development have to be a prime precedence” stated SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. “Accountable industries set the bar for steering on security, sustainability and ethics, and we’re proud to guide the clear vitality sector into an period of compliance and maturity that instills confidence in prospects, lawmakers, and different vital companions.”

These requirements will likely be developed beneath a multi-step, consensus course of by way of SEIA’s Normal Technical Committees, a various assortment of SEIA members and business leaders who symbolize photo voltaic builders, set up firms, and voices all through the photo voltaic worth chain.

SEIA’s first Requirements Technical Committee will prioritize the event of a provide chain traceability customary. This work will construct on SEIA’s traceability protocol and is the pure development of SEIA’s management to make sure that photo voltaic and storage merchandise put in in the USA are sourced in an moral and sustainable means.

SEIA’s first American Nationwide Normal on Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Provide Chain Traceability Normal is deliberate for publication in early 2024.

Be taught extra about SEIA’s requirements improvement work and the way firms can be part of committees to develop this new set of photo voltaic and storage business requirements.

SEIA is accredited by ANSI to develop the next requirements:

• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Provide Chain Traceability Normal
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Set up Necessities Normal: Residential Programs
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Set up Necessities Normal: Residential Programs Installer Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Set up Necessities Normal: Business & Industrial Programs
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Set up Necessities Normal: Business & Industrial Programs Installer Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Operations and Upkeep Normal: Technician Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Shopper Safety Normal
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Environmental, Well being, and Security Normal: Installer and Technician Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Vitality Storage Tools Decommissioning Normal
• Photo voltaic Tools Minimal Necessities for Recyclers
• Photo voltaic Tools Finish-of-Efficiency / Finish-of Life Administration Normal

Information replace from SEIA.

The Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality financial system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to attain 30% of U.S. electrical energy era by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member firms and different strategic companions to struggle for insurance policies that create jobs in each neighborhood and form truthful market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by way of analysis, schooling and advocacy. Go to SEIA on-line at www.seia.org and comply with @SEIA on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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