SEIA Solar Blog
Through our blog, SEIA staff aim to informing policymakers, the media, and the American public about the benefits of solar energy for today’s economy. Scroll down for a running feed of our blog posts. For a complete archive of press releases, blogs and other news articles, click here.
Meritless Circumvention Petition Threatens to Hurt U.S. Clean Energy Deployment
Last month, Auxin Solar filed a self-interested circumvention petition that could undermine America’s progress towards its clean energy goals. In response, over 200 solar companies came together to urge the U.S. Department of Commerce to reject this frivolous petition without delay.
Five Ways Congress Can Advance Environmental Justice with Smart Clean Energy Policies
As Congress considers historic investments in clean energy policies, they have an unprecedented opportunity to push for bold public policies that benefit Americans in every zip code. To highlight the critical role environmental justice plays in climate and energy policy discussions, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) teamed up with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Solar United Neighbors (SUN) to meet with 14 members of Congress on this important topic.
The Importance of Investing in Black-Owned Businesses and Diversifying Your Supply Chain
Black entrepreneurs and leaders are finding success in the solar industry, and this Black History Month, SEIA is celebrating their work and highlighting the opportunity we have diversify our supply chain and invest in Black- and minority-owned businesses.
We Won’t Quit on Clean Energy Policy: Senate Champions Double Down on Build Back Better at Virtual Rally
Earlier this week, Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N. M.) joined Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper to discuss the promising path forward for renewable energy policy. The virtual rally, hosted by the SEIA and Clean Energy for America, focused on the importance of the Build Back Better Act and urged Americans not to give up on this important legislation.
When Expectations Meet Reality: New Certification Program Helps Companies Follow Through on Diversity Promises
As consumer expectations change, it’s on businesses to change with them. Many customers want to know that the companies they’re supporting are trying to make the world a more equitable place, and expectations around corporate social responsibility are higher than they’ve ever been.
Build Back Better: The Solution to Solar Supply Chain Problems and Price Increases
Supply chains are backlogged and prices have increased for raw materials and consumer goods across the economy. The clean energy sector is no different, and has been feeling the supply pinch for most of 2021. This has put years-long price declines in reverse in a matter of months. However, there is a solution that will offset price increases and unleash a new era of American clean energy leadership: The Build Back Better Act.
Keep Credit Unions in the Clean Energy Economy
Against long odds, Congress is on the brink of an historic moment that will align the interests of the banking industry, the solar industry and the community of activists that have been pushing for investments in clean energy. But, in a plot twist worthy of the worst D.C. political drama, an obscure rulemaking process at a federal agency that most people have never heard of threatens to deny millions of homeowners the opportunity to finance sustainable home improvement projects for their own homes.
Securing Our Solar Future: How Clean Energy Can Be the Most Cybersecure, Reliable Technology on the Grid
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines the power grid as critical infrastructure, but the grid was not built to support the current complex and interconnected structure that it has become, making it vulnerable to potential cyber-threats. As solar and storage technologies are deployed in record-breaking numbers, it’s important for the industry to prioritize cybersecurity to ensure clean energy resources are the safest and most secure technologies on the grid.
Online Solar Permitting Tool Helps 2,800 Homeowners Go Solar
Yesterday the National Renewable Energy Laboratory provided an update on Solar Automated Permit Processing (SolarAPP+), a no-cost, instant online solar permitting tool that communities can use to fast-track solar installations.
Cleanie Awards Honor SEIA’s Commitment to Diversity, Hopper’s Leadership
Each year, the Cleanie Awards celebrate the people and brands that are driving the clean energy economy forward. Today, the Cleanie Awards is honoring Abigail Ross Hopper and the Solar Energy Industries Association for their contributions to the solar industry. The Cleanie Awards named Ms. Hopper, “Woman of the Year” for her leadership and ability to navigate some of the toughest challenges that the industry has faced to date.