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Lessons Learned: Past Guidebooks

SEAC promotes sustainable energy by uniting stakeholders, providing recommendations for safe transition to net-zero communities. The guidebook offers solutions for efficient permitting processes and standards.

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Lessons Learned: Past Guidebooks

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  1. Lessons Learned: Past Guidebooks SEAC is dedicated to promoting the use of sustainable energy by uniting jurisdictions, installers, contractors, manufacturers, utilities and testing laboratories into one common goal:  to provide information and produce recommendations to safely and efficiently support the transition to zero net energy communities.

  2. Sustainable Energy Action Committee (SEAC) • Collaborative organization of diverse stakeholders • Meet monthly to identify and find solutions for issues that affect the installation and use of sustainable energy systems including solar, energy storage, demand response, and energy efficiency • Solutions include the development and implementation of efficient and effective permitting and inspection processes, and proposals to applicable codes and standards. • www.seacgroup.org

  3. Form of Deliverables • Single guidebook PDF? • Multiple documents on website? • Scope of project types? • Lots of different types/sizes of energy storage systems to cover • Release cycle for documents as they’re created and approved? • Should the scope of documents be limited? • Keep it simple to address most typical applications (80%?)

  4. CA Solar Permitting Guidebook • 111 page guidebook with “toolkit” documents for use by contractors and AHJs • ~23 pages commonly used for PV permitting / inspections. • ~10 pages for solar thermal • ~95 pages of supplemental structural justification (separate document)

  5. CA Solar Permitting Guidebook – CSE Website • Link for whole guidebook • Links to individual toolkit documents • Easier to update individual toolkit documents when needed • Code supplements • Code cycle changes • Technology changes • Shifts in market • Errata

  6. ZEV Materials

  7. Document Update Support and Maintenance • Who is formally responsible and what is the process for: • Intake of feedback from those using the documents? • Making changes to the documents? • Vetting changes? • Releasing updated documents?

  8. Cross-Industry Stakeholders • Stakeholders included: • AHJs / local government • Installers / developers • Utilities • Equipment manufacturers • Testing labs • Collaborative approach: • No single section of the “industry” makes all decisions on content • Promotes uniformity and continuity • Learn from other communities

  9. Follow-Through & Training • Not all jurisdictions have adopted documents from CA Solar Permitting Guidebook • Need follow-up training for stakeholders using the documents and forms. Examples from solar training include: • IAEI • ICC • CALBO • IREC • UL • CALSSA • SEAC

  10. SEAC’s Recommendations • Form of Deliverables • Mechanism for Updates and Maintenance • Cross-Industry, Balanced Group of Stakeholders • Follow-Through and Training Needs to be focused, useable, and well-scoped.

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