SEIA Webinars
Our webinars cover a variety of topics relevant to solar professionals, including state policy updates, federal tax issues, community engagement, and much more. Explore all of our webinars below. Archived copies of past webinars are available to SEIA members only. For a full list of upcoming webinars and in-person events, click here.
SolarAPP+ and Solar Installers: Let’s Talk About Automated Permitting
SolarAPP+ will soon be more widely available for jurisdictions to integrate into their building permitting processes. As adoption of the tool grows throughout the U.S., solar installers can prepare ahead of time by learning from the benefits experienced by those installers who participated in SolarAPP+ pilots.
SEIA Finance & Tax Seminar
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Solar Industry Briefing: Enforcement Action and Forced Labor Prevention
SEIA is hosting a webinar to provide an update on recent action by the U.S. government regarding the use of forced labor in the Xinjiang solar supply chain. On Thursday, June 24, the U.S. government issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) and added several polysilicon manufacturers to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List.
Solar + Storage Finance and Tax 101
This 101-style webinar will serve as the perfect primer to get the most out of the upcoming SEIA Finance & Tax Seminar. Join this panel of experts as they discuss the basics of project financing and tax considerations for solar and storage projects. The program will cover the latest tax policies, structuring trends, debt & equity, financing developments, and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
Solar Ready Vets: Cultivating the Next Generation of Solar Industry Leaders
Event Detail The solar industry is currently outpacing the rest of the economy in its employment of veterans, with veterans representing 8.7% of the solar workforce, compared to 5.7% in the overall economy. But there is still a long way to go in order to continue building military representation in solar energy.
The Future of Solar Incentive Programs in New Jersey
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is nearing the end of its comprehensive revision of the state’s solar energy incentive programs. This transition began with the closure of the Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) Program on April 30, 2020 and the interim Transition Incentive (TI) Program, which serves as a bridge to the forthcoming Successor Program.
The Solar Industry’s Commitment to an Ethical Supply Chain: New Tools & Resources
Building on the industry’s work to promote corporate social responsibility, SEIA is releasing three key resources:
NREL Solar TRACE and SolarAPP+ Roundtable
SEIA and NREL hosted a demonstration and roundtable discussion featuring the newly launched Solar TRACE and SolarAPP+. Solar TRACE will strengthen the ability for jurisdictions and utilities to identify opportunities to improve their permitting, inspection and interconnection (PII) cycle-time, accelerating realization of shorter cycle-times with the adoption of Solar APP+.
Nationwide PII Transparency from NREL Analysis
Join SEIA and NREL on Wednesday, March 31st as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory launches the Solar Time-based Residential Analytics and Cycle time Estimator (Solar TRACE) for rooftop solar permitting, inspection, and interconnection (PII) tool. Solar TRACE will strengthen the ability for jurisdictions to identify opportunities to improve their permitting, inspection, and interconnection (PII) cycle-time.
Solar Market Insight Report: 2020 Year-in-Review Webinar
In a ground-breaking year for the U.S. solar industry, solar led all technologies in new electric-generating capacity added, installing a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) in 2020 according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report released this week. SEIA and Wood Mackenzie’s report included a 10-year forecast for the first time ever, showing that the U.S. solar industry is on track to quadruple in size over the next decade.