SEIA staff summarizes industry and association news, assembles multimedia content and sponsors research about solar energy and issues that affect policy. See links below for more details.
Featured Press Release
Solar Industry Calls on Senate to Include Bipartisan Solar Provisions in Energy Bill
SEIA Press Release - July 23, 2010
Featured Solar in the News
Cash grant that propped up alt power due to expire - AP
Solar in the News - August 28, 2010
Featured Research
Renewable Energy Creates More Jobs than Fossil Fuels
August 31, 2010
A study from Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory found that all renewable energy technologies create more jobs per unit of energy than fossil fuels. A 30% by 2030 Renewable Energy Standard combined with energy efficiency standards would create a net benefit of more than four million full-time equivalent job-years by 2030. To read the report and view the model used in the analysis, click here.
Featured Multimedia
Roger Efird on Clean Skies TV
Rhone Resch Interview with Diane Rehm on NPR - 07/13
Power Failure (Political Cartoon on Solar ITC)
Politico, opinion, Apr. 16 (Wuerker, select 4/16 in archive)
Sometimes a picture is worth a 1,000 megawatts!
