Hi David & Wrenches,
We participated in the pilot of SolarAPP starting around February of
last year, for Pima County and the City of Tucson here in Arizona, and
have continued to use it as was fully rolled out.
It's a great tool! It's really sped up the process for permits we use it
for, allowing for same-day permits for about 80-90% of our jobs in those
AHJs. It does have a few quirks to learn, and there are some limitations
as to what installations can go through SolarAPP. NREL and their
development partners have been pretty responsive in terms of
improvements and corrections, as well as increasing functionality.
The main benefit we have found is speed. The City of Tucson had a
serious backlog in permit applications, and we were sometimes waiting
10-12 weeks for permits, which was pretty frustrating. From the AHJ
perspective, it's saving them a _lot_ of review time. NREL has shared
some good stats in some of the presentations they've done.
We still do a full set of construction plans, even though that's not
part of SolarAPP, mostly to have a solid detailed plan for our
installers, but also because some utilities are still requiring some of
those sheets.
Best,
Louis Woofenden
Net Zero Solar
Tucson, AZ
David Coale wrote on 2/2/22 3:13 PM:
Hi Wrenchers,
Has anyone used the SolarApp+ application for permitting solar? It is
just getting started and sounds very promising and could greatly
reduce the soft costs of installations.
More info can be found here: https://solarapp.nrel.gov/
David
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