Solar industry’s new policy agenda pushes for electric reliability

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Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has a new policy agenda centered on electric reliability.

Unveiled today, the new policy agenda details actions for local, state and federal leaders to take to strengthen the U.S. electric grid using solar and storage technologies. The “Solar and Storage Industry Policy Agenda for a Reliable, Secure Grid” offers a blueprint for modernizing energy infrastructure, supporting development of domestic supply chains, heavily investing in battery storage and other technologies.

SEIA’s reliability policy agenda includes:

  • Supporting development of domestic supply chains and traceability standards for solar and energy storage products and components
  • Meeting the demand challenges of AI and data centers by creating regulatory fast tracks for solar and storage projects co-located in high-growth load zones
  • Reforming interconnection processes to reduce costly delays and get solar and storage on the grid faster
  • Modernizing transmission infrastructure to expand the grid’s capacity to transmit more electricity
  • Investing in long-duration storage by fostering new research and deployment strategies
  • Reforming wholesale market design to properly account for the value solar and storage bring to the grid
  • Reforming state utility resource planning to evaluate solar and storage as capacity and energy resources that support reliability
  • Incentivizing distributed energy resource programs, including unlocking virtual power plants to strengthen the local and bulk power grid

“The reliability of our electric grid – and America’s ability to meet future energy demand – depend on adding more solar and storage to the energy mix,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of SEIA. “Today, reliable low-cost solar and storage account for the vast majority of the new power generation being built in America.”

“If this administration is serious about winning the AI race,” Hopper said, “we need policymakers at every level to put in place commonsense, grid-strengthening policies that accelerate solar and storage deployment. Enacting this agenda will help us meet skyrocketing demand for energy and keep energy prices down for families.”

In July, SEIA launched a new grassroots advocacy campaign to mobilize Americans nationwide to urge state officials to support policies that strengthen the reliability and security of our electric grid by investing in solar and storage.

(Also read: SEIA develops strategic plan to implement circular economy throughout the solar industry & The solar industry’s top 10 priorities for Trump)

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