The Photo voltaic Vitality Industries Affiliation (SEIA) has launched a draft trade normal, with the purpose of enhancing transparency of the photo voltaic and storage provide chain and serving to firms adjust to U.S. Customs and Border Safety’s (CBP) traceability necessities.
The Normal 101 gives a rubric that producers and importers can observe to hint product origins from uncooked supplies to completed items.
The usual relies on real-world examples of photo voltaic product shipments that had been detained and launched by customs officers and contains enter from stakeholders, together with producers, builders and third-party auditors.
“The U.S. photo voltaic and storage trade has an unwavering dedication to moral operations,” says SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper.
“As we construct out home manufacturing up and down the provision chain, this normal will assist to make sure all photo voltaic and storage merchandise put in in the USA meet the best moral requirements. This normal is a part of SEIA’s broader efforts to construct a robust basis for the trade and thoughtfully tackle near- and long-term challenges, setting the trade up for many years of success.”
SEIA’s provide chain normal applies to each firms and merchandise, supporting photo voltaic builders and producers all through each side of provide chain mapping and monitoring.
Producers can use the usual to certify a person product in addition to their enterprise. As soon as the usual is revealed, SEIA will work with third-party auditors to certify that the provenance of a product has been correctly tracked. Equally, a producer can have its provide chain administration system licensed by SEIA as properly.
Photo voltaic and storage builders can even use the usual to trace the origins of venture elements whereas installers, insurers and different companies counting on photo voltaic product info can require distributors to observe SEIA’s normal.
Normal 101 is now open for public remark and is anticipated to be revealed and in-use by subsequent yr’s first quarter.
In July, SEIA launched Requirements 401 and 201 that govern photo voltaic gross sales and set up practices. It expects to launch draft requirements on O&M and environmental, well being and security coaching for installers and technicians later this yr, in addition to an tools recycling normal subsequent yr.
