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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 21 2021, @10:48AM   Printer-friendly

U.S. seeks to speed rooftop solar growth with instant permits:

The Solar Automated Permit Processing (SolarAPP+) platform, developed by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will be an optional portal for local governments to process permit applications automatically.

Approvals typically take a week or more currently, and permit-related costs can account for about a third of installers' overall costs, DOE said. The software speeds the process up by standardizing requirements, streamlining the application and automating some approvals.

Administration officials said the software will help speed adoption of rooftop solar and achieve President Joe Biden's goal of decarbonizing the U.S. electricity grid by 2035, a key pillar of his plan to address climate change. DOE has said that solar energy will need to be installed at a pace as much as five times faster than it is today to realize that goal.

[...] The portal performs an automatic review of permit applications, approving eligible systems instantly. Complex or ineligible systems are re-routed for additional review.

Local governments will not have to pay for the portal, DOE said. DOE is challenging 125 mayors and local officials to sign up for the SolarAPP tool before the end of the summer.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bussdriver on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:41PM

    by bussdriver (6876) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:41PM (#1158928)

    Licenses don't stop a lot of bad or scamming contractors. You need a neutral 3rd party inspector. How do we pay for those? Well, people don't want to pay for a job that they don't personally need so we push the cost to employ them onto the users of them. Like the gas tax which funds roads; it's a user fee. You need an inspector so you pay the fee. How badly managed and how selfish and short sighted your city (gov and majority) is what decides the fees.

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