{"id":100453,"date":"2022-11-14T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/?p=100453"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:22:38","slug":"solar-technology-spared-in-proposed-international-building-code-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/11\/solar-technology-spared-in-proposed-international-building-code-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar technology spared in proposed International Building Code changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Code Council and FEMA released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iccsafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRELIMINARY-2022-GROUP-A-OGCV-RESULTS.pdf\">preliminary results<\/a> on proposed code changes on Friday that would have increased solar technology to the highest possible risk category in the 2024 International Building Code. Backed by 300 companies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/seia.org\/\">Solar Energy Industries Association<\/a> issued countermeasures to prevent solar technology from moving from risk category I to risk category IV. The ICC is reportedly approving the proposed move to risk category II instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to the ICC voters for recognizing how impractical it was to include solar and storage projects as Risk Category 4,&#8221; said Abigail Ross Hopper, CEO and president of SEIA. &#8220;This decision is undoubtedly a victory for clean energy deployment in the United States after more than 300 companies signed a letter urging approval of SEIA\u2019s compromise proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extreme and overly burdensome code measures that would have been required under the FEMA proposal could have stifled clean energy growth without improving grid resilience,&#8221; Hopper continued. &#8220;The resulting effect, whether intended or not, would have been a disastrous decrease in renewable energy projects while we aggressively strive to meet important climate goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is expected to be a slight increase in manufacturing costs for ground-mounted solar structures with this shift to category II. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roth.com\/\">Roth Capital Partners<\/a> expects &#8220;modest increases in tracker costs,&#8221; with an estimated increase of 2-5% in category II, in contrast to an estimated 30-40% increase in category IV.<\/p>\n<p>There will be additional inspection requirements from this new risk category designation, however, they will be less stringent than originally proposed. 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