WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the moment the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation (SEIA) was permitted by the American Nationwide Requirements Institute (ANSI) to develop 11 new photo voltaic and vitality storage requirements, lower than two months after being permitted as an Accredited Requirements Improvement Group.

The permitted proposals, which seem within the newest ANSI Requirements Motion publication, embody requirements for residential and industrial and industrial set up necessities, provide chain traceability, shopper safety, decommissioning, recycling and finish of life administration, in addition to coaching for set up, operations and upkeep, and well being and security.

“Because the photo voltaic and storage business quickly grows, managing our progress should be a prime precedence” mentioned SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. “Accountable industries set the bar for steering on security, sustainability and ethics, and we’re proud to steer the clear vitality sector into an period of compliance and maturity that instills confidence in clients, lawmakers, and different vital companions.”

These requirements might be developed below a multi-step, consensus course of by way of SEIA’s Commonplace Technical Committees, a various assortment of SEIA members and business leaders who characterize photo voltaic builders, set up corporations, and voices all through the photo voltaic worth chain.

SEIA’s first Requirements Technical Committee will prioritize the event of a provide chain traceability normal. This work will construct on SEIA’s traceability protocol and is the pure development of SEIA’s management to make sure that photo voltaic and storage merchandise put in in america are sourced in an moral and sustainable method.

SEIA’s first American Nationwide Commonplace on Photo voltaic and Power Storage Provide Chain Traceability Commonplace is deliberate for publication in early 2024.

Be taught extra about SEIA’s requirements growth work and the way corporations can be part of committees to develop this new set of photo voltaic and storage business requirements.

SEIA is permitted by ANSI to develop the next requirements:

• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Provide Chain Traceability Commonplace
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Set up Necessities Commonplace: Residential Techniques
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Set up Necessities Commonplace: Residential Techniques Installer Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Set up Necessities Commonplace: Business & Industrial Techniques
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Set up Necessities Commonplace: Business & Industrial Techniques Installer Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Operations and Upkeep Commonplace: Technician Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Shopper Safety Commonplace
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Environmental, Well being, and Security Commonplace: Installer and Technician Coaching
• Photo voltaic and Power Storage Tools Decommissioning Commonplace
• Photo voltaic Tools Minimal Necessities for Recyclers
• Photo voltaic Tools Finish-of-Efficiency / Finish-of Life Administration Commonplace

Information replace from SEIA.

The Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear vitality economic system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to realize 30% of U.S. electrical energy era by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member corporations and different strategic companions to struggle for insurance policies that create jobs in each neighborhood and form truthful market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade by way of analysis, training and advocacy. Go to SEIA on-line at www.seia.org and observe @SEIA on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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