SEIA Webinar Archive

Supplier diversity is a business strategy that ensures a diverse supplier base in the procurement of goods and services for any business or organization. It emphasizes the creation of a diverse supply chain that works to secure the inclusion of diverse groups in the procurement plans for government, not-for-profits, and private industry.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Idaho National Lab (INL) hosted a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity conference for the solar and storage industry. Over the next decade, hundreds of gigawatts of clean energy projects will come online and each one must account for the increased threat of cyberattacks from foreign and domestic adversaries.

Businesses have numerous options to finance commercial and industrial solar projects. This session will review in detail how to determine whether PPA, operating lease, PACE loan or other options work best for you. Speakers:

On March 28th, the U.S. Department of Commerce made the disastrous decision to initiate an anticircumvention investigation against solar cell and module imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. This case is already causing serious damage to the U.S. solar industry and threatens tens of thousands of American solar jobs and billions of dollars in U.S. investments.

In 2021 the U.S. Solar Market again set records as demand for residential solar (and storage) reached new levels and the utility-scale solar pipeline continued to be built out.

In June 2021, U.S. Customs & Border Protection issued a withhold-release order (WRO) against products containing silica from Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., impacting solar imports which are now subject to customs enforcement activity, including import detention. While this has impacted the U.S.