Solar America Board of Codes and Standards (Solar ABCs) The Solar America Board for Codes and Standards (Solar ABCs) is a collaborative effort among experts to formally gather and prioritize input from the broad spectrum of solar photovoltaic stakeholders including policy makers, manufacturers, installers, and consumers resulting in coordinated recommendations to codes and standards making bodies for existing and new solar technologies. The U.S. Department of Energy funds Solar ABCs as part of its commitment to facilitate wide-spread adoption of safe, reliable, and cost-effective solar technologies.
The Solar ABCs changes the practice of developing, implementing, and disseminating solar codes and standards in the following ways:
- By providing formal coordination in the planning and revision of separate, though interrelated, solar codes and standards
- By providing access for stakeholders to participate with members of standards making bodies in setting national priorities on technical issues
- By developing a centralized repository for collection and dissemination of documents, regulations, and technical materials related to solar codes and standards
- And by creating a centralized home for three key technical services:
- a) generating consensus “best practices” materials and disseminating such materials to utilities, state, and other regulating jurisdictions,
- b) answering code-related questions (technical or statutory in nature),
- c) providing feedback on important related issues to DOE and government agencies.
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