SEIA Resources
Whitepapers
SEIA produces a variety of research and other supporting resources for the solar industry, ranging from full reports to short factsheets. Below is a list of our whitepapers, organized by date. For a full library of research and resources, click here.
Getting More Granular: How Value of Location and Time May Change Compensation for Distributed Energy Resources
The Fourth Installment in SEIA's New Opportunities for Solar Through Grid Modernization Series. For the full series, click here.
Solar Energy & Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
Solar energy offers commercial real estate (CRE) property owners and managers an exceptional opportunity to boost cash flow by reducing utility expenditures, increasing rents, and increasing common areas maintenance (CAM) reimbursements. Installing a solar photovoltaic (PV) array also fosters closer connections with tenants and their client bases, facilitates lease extensions, and enables a sustainable footprint.
Opening C&I Solar Markets with C-PACE
The US solar industry is largely concentrated on the East and West Coasts (Fig. 1), and with good reason: coastal markets have high energy prices, attractive incentives, and diverse ownership models that allow commercial property owners to decide their appetite for investment. However, the majority of US states see lackluster commercial solar development.
Hosting Capacity: Using Increased Transparency of Grid Constraints to Accelerate Interconnection Processes
The Third Installment in SEIA's New Opportunities for Solar Through Grid Modernization Series. For the full series, click here.
Improving Distribution System Planning to Incorporate Distributed Energy Resources
The Second Installment in SEIA's New Opportunities for Solar Through Grid Modernization Series. For the full series, click here.
SEAOC Conference Papers
Wind Loads on Utility Scale Solar PV Power PlantsThe Solar Photovoltaic (PV) industry is experiencing phenomenal growth. Wind loads for ground-mounted PV power plants are often developed by using static pressure coefficients from wind tunnel studies in calculation methods found in ASCE 7.
How California & New York are Building Grids that Encourage the Growth of Distributed Energy Resources
The First Installment in SEIA's New Opportunities for Solar Through Grid Modernization Series. For the full series, click here.
Reference - NREL/Sandia/Sunspec Alliance SuNLaMP PV O&M Working Group O&M Best Practices 2nd Edition
Provided to SEIA members with permission from Tom Tansy, SunSpec Alliance Chairman.
Expanding Solar Deployment Opportunities in the C&I Sector
An Introduction to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Executive Summary Despite enormous market opportunity, strong interest in corporate responsibility, and improving economics, solar deployment in the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector has been largely stagnant over the past 5 years.