[RE-wrenches] Beat your local AHJ's over the head if you have to...

[Bill Brooks]

Ryan and Matt,

There are significant efforts underway to standardize permitting. Too many
efforts are going on that will cause a proliferation of different ideas,
rather than standardization. The ICC Tri-Chapter document is good, as it is
based on the SMUD document, but it falls significantly short of providing
standardization. It has the all-encompassing statement, "8) The installation
of the PV system shall conform to the requirements of CEC Article 690 and
any other applicable articles or standards." That makes this document very
nearly worthless since it is not specific.

Solar ABCS (URL www.solarabcs.org) has commissioned me to develop an
Expedited Permitting process that brings together the best of what has been
done up to now. These efforts include not only the ICC Tri-Chapter work, but
also SolarTech, my Inspector Guidelines, and John Wiles checklist. The basis
is to have a process whereby a jurisdiction could do an over-the-counter
permit for single-phase, residential-sized, PV systems. This is the real
need in the PV industry. There are similar needs in the SDHW market.

The draft of this document will be available very soon. It will be going out
for internal review to a few folks this week. The draft version will be
available for comment within a month. The key to this document is a
standardized electrical diagram. This also makes the process easier to
accommodate an on-line permit submittal process.

Bill.

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The City of Portland has a couple of similar documents that you may want to
know about. As with the one Matt posted, not perfect but a starting
point.....

I know a number of local jurisdictions are looking at this document and
basing their permitting guidelines around it.

http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/index.cfm?c=36814&a=193776
http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/index.cfm?c=36814&a=195360

Ryan



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