As announced by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) website (www.irecusa.org):

The next IREC Webinar will be held Thursday, November 12, at 2pm EST (1pm CST, noon MST, 11am PST, 10am Alaska, 9am Hawaii) on the Expedited Permit Process for Small PV Systems. The webinar will last for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Please visit www.irecusa.org to register for this free webinar.

Local jurisdictions are responsible for establishing the permitting requirements for PV system construction and installation in their territory. While jurisdictions everywhere share most of the same challenges in ensuring the safety of new PV systems, inexperience with PV has led many to implement unnecessarily complex and inconsistent permitting procedures. In some cases, time and expense is added to the project because multiple departments are required to review the same application. This severely inhibits the timely and efficient construction of PV systems.

The Solar America Board for Codes and Standards has just released a recommended permit process, Expedited Permit Process for PV Systems – A Standardized Process for the Review of Small-Scale PV Systems. This permit process was created to meet the needs of the growing, small-scale photovoltaic (PV) market in the U.S. and is applicable nationwide. It takes advantage of the many common characteristics inherent in most of the small-scale PV systems installed today to streamline both the application and approval of permits.

Bill Brooks is the author of the report and he will present this seminar.