{"id":225,"date":"2021-07-17T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2021-07-17T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:06:02","slug":"instant-solar-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/instant-solar-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Solar Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US seems to be intent on making <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/sustainable-business\/us-seeks-speed-rooftop-solar-growth-with-instant-permits-2021-07-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">rooftop solar<\/a> panels go mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">The Solar Automated Permit Processing (SolarAPP+) platform, developed by DOE&#8217;s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will be an optional portal for local governments to process permit applications automatically. Approvals typically take a week or more currently, and permit-related costs can account for about a third of installers&#8217; overall costs, DOE said. The software speeds the process up by standardizing requirements, streamlining the application and automating some approvals.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US seems to be intent on making rooftop solar panels go mainstream. The Solar Automated Permit Processing (SolarAPP+) platform, developed by DOE&#8217;s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will be an optional portal for local governments to process permit applications automatically. Approvals typically take a week or more currently, and permit-related costs can account for about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/instant-solar-permits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instant Solar Permits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}