ANSI Formally Approves Two New SEIA Requirements on Shopper Safety and Operations and Upkeep

Final Up to date on: twenty seventh June 2025, 04:21 am

WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Nationwide Requirements Institute (ANSI) has formally accepted two new American Nationwide Requirements developed by the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation (SEIA) on shopper safety and operations and upkeep for photo voltaic and storage tasks.

These newly accepted requirements, ANSI/SEIA 401 and ANSI/SEIA 301, reinforce SEIA’s management in setting complete security, high quality, operations and upkeep, coaching, and gross sales practices for the {industry}. As an ANSI-accredited requirements developer, these new requirements had been developed via a rigorous course of involving stakeholders from throughout the photo voltaic and storage worth chain — together with installers, producers, financiers, shopper advocates, nationwide laboratories, and authorities companies.

To help the implementation of those requirements throughout the {industry}, SEIA is launching a brand new on-line platform the place firms, customers, and different stakeholders can entry the complete suite of SEIA requirements and upcoming implementation sources. The implementation sources will help firms to seamlessly combine these requirements into their enterprise practices.

“These requirements mark a serious step ahead in professionalizing the photo voltaic and storage {industry}, boosting shopper confidence, and constructing a extra resilient power sector,” stated SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. “By setting nationwide requirements for shopper safety, technician coaching, and set up and system upkeep, SEIA is guaranteeing that each buyer receives the worth and efficiency they count on, and that photo voltaic and storage is a robust contributor to an inexpensive, dependable, and safe power system.”

ANSI/SEIA 401-2025, the Photo voltaic and Power Storage Shopper Safety American Nationwide Normal, outlines coaching necessities, to ascertain moral gross sales and contracting practices and guarantee all photo voltaic prospects have a radical understanding of their contract phrases and course of earlier than committing. Firms and salespeople educated underneath this customary will present prospects with complete and clear disclosure of prices, key contract phrases, and know-how data.

ANSI/SEIA 301-2025, the Photo voltaic and Power Storage Operations and Upkeep Technician Coaching American Nationwide Normal, educates technical professionals on sustaining photo voltaic and storage techniques to maximise efficiency, longevity, and security. It additionally offers specs for scheduled upkeep, system monitoring, security checks, and file holding, guaranteeing extra dependable techniques that improve the resilience of the electrical grid.

SEIA will launch its new skilled and firm certification packages in November 2025, which is able to present a pathway for industry-wide recognition of compliance with the ANSI/SEIA requirements. For people, the certification requires passing an examination to exhibit understanding of the usual.

As an ANSI-accredited requirements developer, SEIA has been convening numerous stakeholders to develop a set of requirements that proactively and responsibly handle the {industry}’s development. Along with these two accepted requirements, SEIA is creating 9 extra industry-wide requirements that cowl a variety of points, together with provide chain traceability and challenge decommissioning.

Be taught extra about SEIA’s requirements work.

About SEIA®: The Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation® (SEIA) is main the transformation to a clear power financial system, creating the framework for photo voltaic to attain 30% of U.S. electrical energy era by 2030. SEIA works with its 1,000 member firms and different strategic companions to struggle for insurance policies that create jobs in each group and form honest market guidelines that promote competitors and the expansion of dependable, low-cost solar energy. Based in 1974, SEIA is the nationwide commerce affiliation for the photo voltaic and photo voltaic + storage industries, constructing a complete imaginative and prescient for the Photo voltaic+ Decade via analysis, training and advocacy. Go to SEIA on-line at www.seia.org and observe @SEIA on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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