12 Communities Selected To Adopt Online Solar Permitting Platform — and Win $15,000
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced 12 communities as winners of Step 1 of the American-Made Solar Automated Permit Processing Plus Prize — a two-step competition to help communities adopt automated processing of residential solar permits, lowering costs and making solar more accessible for homeowners.
SolarAPP+ is an online platform that instantly issues permits for code-compliant residential rooftop photovoltaic systems. Solar permitting can be a major bottleneck for residential solar installations due to long review timelines or unclear processes that might require revised permit applications.
Each of the communities selected during Step 1 of the SolarAPP+ Prize program has been determined to be eligible to adopt SolarAPP+. If they successfully adopt SolarAPP+ during Step 2 of the prize, they will receive $15,000. Although SolarAPP+ is free for any community to use, the prize is designed to reward those communities that can adopt SolarAPP+ quickly.
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