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

[Joel Davidson]

Hi Bill,

Will the standard permit package be the drawings and checklist in the 
Inspector Guidelines
http://www.irecusa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/NationalOutreachPubs/InspectorGuidelines-Version2.1.pdf
or the drawing at 
http://solarabcs.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=137&&Itemid=72

It would be very useful to have a national standard for permit packages for 
both residential and commercial PV systems. Something like:
Cover Sheet
Table of Contents
General Description
Site Plan
Roof Plan
One-Line Electrical Diagram
Equipment Layout Drawing
Wire and Conduit Calculations
Component Specifications Sheets.

Of course, some projects will require more documentation, but a standardized 
permit package would eliminate a lot of Building & Safety Departments' 
ambiguous subjectivity.

Best regards,
Joel Davidson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Brooks" <billbrooks7 at yahoo.com>
To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Beat your local AHJ's over the head if youhave 
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> 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.
>