{"id":100468,"date":"2022-12-27T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/?p=100468"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:09:57","slug":"2022-paves-way-for-massive-growth-for-solar-storage-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/12\/2022-paves-way-for-massive-growth-for-solar-storage-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 paves way for massive growth for solar + storage industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robust federal clean energy policy has laid the groundwork for a decade of explosive growth for the solar and storage industries. A 10-year extension of the investment tax credit, new incentives for domestic solar product manufacturing and many other provisions will help solar and storage meet the increasing demand for home-grown, clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>The industry has already seen U.S. manufacturing expansion and groundbreaking announcements directly triggered by the Inflation Reduction Act at the end of 2022, with developers eager to collect the 10% ITC adder for sourcing domestic content. From mounting companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/10\/a-look-inside-the-solar-industrys-newest-us-factory\/\">Nextracker<\/a>, with an expanding manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, to panel makers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/10\/heliene-opens-420-mw-solar-panel-assembly-line-in-minnesota\/\">Heliene<\/a>, with expansion plans at a Minnesota facility, the legislation is delivering more solar manufacturing to U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, it simply did not make economic sense to build solar manufacturing facilities in the United States,&#8221; wrote Heliene president Martin Pochtaruk in an op-ed for Solar Power World. &#8220;Fortunately for energy consumers and the nation\u2019s climate goals, this has started to change. There\u2019s never been a better time to invest in domestic solar manufacturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2022 marked a return to relative pre-pandemic normalcy with solar tradeshows back in business, including the largest in the United States, RE+. The show in Anaheim, California, brought a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/11\/re-2022-sets-record-attendance\/\">record-setting number<\/a> of more than 27,000 people together to attend sessions and see new products in person for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first time we were able to host RE+ in person since 2019. It was clear that the industry was eager to get back together to network and conduct business, in a way that\u2019s hard to replicate online,\u201d said Stephen Miner, president and CEO of RE+ Events, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>On the regional policy front, utilities and solar advocates continued to clash in 2022, but some compromises gave the industry hope for a more collaborative future. In Minnesota, the public utilities commission approved a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/11\/minnesota-puc-approves-new-cost-sharing-small-solar-interconnection\/%20\">cost-sharing program<\/a> for residential solar interconnection upgrades that require new solar customers to pay $200 into the program to cover any necessary expensive grid upgrades that ordinarily would be expected from one homeowner. And in California, the utilities commission released a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/11\/cpuc-releases-new-nem-proposal\/\">net metering 3.0<\/a>, which didn&#8217;t include the &#8220;solar tax&#8221; that the solar industry rallied against in the original version. Although utility outcomes are rarely perfect, the solar industry has had a seat at the table in an increasing number of important energy discussions.<\/p>\n<p>In markets large and small, the industry celebrated many milestones over the past year. More utility-scale solar was installed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/11\/more-utility-scale-solar-has-been-installed-this-year-than-all-other-forms-of-energy\/\">first nine months of 2022<\/a> than all other forms of energy, according to a SUN DAY Campaign review of FERC data. The number of residential solar homeowners adding storage to their projects reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/08\/energysage-report-residential-storage-all-time-high\/\">all-time high<\/a>, according to EnergySage. One in 10 of all K-12 schools in the country have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/09\/report-finds-1-in-10-k-12-schools-have-gone-solar\/\">gone solar<\/a>, according to Generation180. And the job market recovered from pandemic lows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/07\/solar-jobs-census-u-s-market-rebounds-from-pandemic-lows-adds-21500-jobs-in-2021\/\">adding 21,500 jobs in 2021<\/a>, according to IREC.<\/p>\n<p>The stage is set for a dramatic ramp-up of solar and storage deployment over the next 10 years, but the industry must stay engaged to get the most out of the opportunities ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSEIA helped deliver the most transformational clean energy bill in history, and now the real work begins,\u201d\u00a0said SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper in a press statement.\u00a0\u201cSEIA is keenly focused on implementation and is well-positioned to tackle the challenges that remain, including land use, recycling, ethical supply chains, workforce and more. Addressing these issues will require a thoughtful, comprehensive vision, and it\u2019s incumbent upon the entire solar and storage industry to build support for this new clean energy era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robust federal clean energy policy has laid the groundwork for a decade of explosive growth for the solar and storage industries. A 10-year extension of the investment tax credit, new incentives for domestic solar product manufacturing and many other provisions will help solar and storage meet the increasing demand for home-grown, clean energy. 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