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Environment America urges US Conference of Mayors to help cut red tape for solar

If Resolution #53 is adopted, the United States Conference of Mayors will urge city leaders to move swiftly to implement automated online solar permitting platforms, like SolarAPP+, to reduce permit review time for solar energy and energy storage systems.

In a letter sent to the chairs of the energy committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Environment America Research & Policy Center’s Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy Johanna Neumann asked the committee to support Resolution #53 and urge city leaders to move swiftly to implement automated online solar permitting platforms, like SolarAPP+. The committee is expected to take up the resolution at the upcoming U.S. Conference of Mayors energy committee meeting on June 5th.

“It’s unacceptable that obtaining a permit to install solar can take days, weeks, or even months in some parts of the country, and can be a complex and costly process,” wrote Neumann in the letter. “At a time when we are using technology in so many aspects of our lives, it seems implausible that applications for solar permits still involve shuffling paper.”

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