The Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) presents an assessment of the literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of the contribution of si
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The installed capacity of global and U.S. photovoltaic (PV) systems has soared in recent years, driven by declining PV prices and government incentives. The U.S.
Customer-sited photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States are often compensated at the customer’s underlying retail electricity rate through net metering.
SEIA submitted a letter to OMB and Treasury in January 2013 to call on the Administration to exempt the 1603 Treasury Program from sequestration cuts set to go into effect March 1.
A solar power purchase agreement (PPA) is a financial agreement where a developer arranges for the design, permitting, financing and installation of a solar energy system on a customer’s property at little to no cost.
An independent research report by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, found that solar energy is following the same path to commercialization as other traditional energy sources spurred by federal incentives. The study, titled "Assessment of Incentives and Employment Impacts of Solar Industry Deployment," also estimates that the U.S. solar industry could employ hundreds of thousands of Americans by the end of the decade.
Dear Majority Leader Reid, Republican Leader McConnell, Chairman Baucus, and Ranking Member Hatch:
On behalf of our thousands of employees who work in the solar industry, we respectfully request a modification of the clean energy tax credits from a “placed in service” standard of eligibility to a “commence construction” standard in both the Section 45 Production Tax Credit (PTC) and in the Section 48 Investment Tax Credit (ITC).
Join Rhone Resch, President and CEO of SEIA, and Carrie Hitt, SEIA’s Vice President of State Affairs, as they break down federal and state election results and ballot initiatives and discuss how they will impact the solar industry in this members
H.R. 6213, the No More Solyndras Act, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in September 2012. If enacted, this bill would sunset DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program {link to http://www.seia.org/policy/finance-tax/loan-guarantee-program} and prevent the issuance of new loan guarantees for renewable energy projects. Despite the headlines, the solar industry is a bright spot in terms of loan guarantees, with eleven utility-scale solar projects currently under construction or operational.