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. -----Original Message----- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:12 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Beat your local AHJ's over the head if you have to... The City of Portland has a couple of similar documents that you may want to know about. As with the one Matt posted, not perfect but a starting point..... I know a number of local jurisdictions are looking at this document and basing their permitting guidelines around it. http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/index.cfm?c=36814&a=193776 http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/index.cfm?c=36814&a=195360 Ryan _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
