Solar Energy Industries Association

Solar Energy Industries Association
Formation January 24, 1974 (1974-01-24)
Legal status association
Purpose national association of the U.S. solar industry
Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States
President and CEO
 Rhone Resch
Website www.seia.org

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is a national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States.[1]

Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (plant) in Sacramento, CA

SEIA is a 501(c)6 non-profit trade association. SEIA's sister organization, The Solar Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization, oversees policy-driven research and develops education & outreach programs to promote the further development of solar energy in the U.S. [2]

The association supports the extension of a 30 percent federal solar investment tax credit for eight years.[3]

With the recent high flux of green jobs in the solar industry, SEIA maintains a resource for those looking for solar jobs.[4] The Harvard Business Review [5] that the solar industry could absorb all of the jobs lost to the coal industry as it shutters.

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