This is another “feel good” mandate without any teeth what-so-ever. Cities and Counties across the U.S. use their permitting process to fill in the funding gaps in local money income streams. Permit costs are just one low hanging fruit device to do this. In many places permitting fees are reasonable, in other jurisdictions they become concatenated and costly, pushing retail ratepayers away from adopting their own solar PV and energy storage systems for their homes. Granholm can ‘ask’, at some point all of the States of the Union that don’t want to ‘adopt’ the SolarAPP+ will have to be “told” Federal monies will be held back IF they don’t get on the train to smooth affordable energy technology programs.

” There are more than 15,000 local jurisdictions that approve solar permits, and each one has its own approach or system for approving these projects. SolarAPP+ helps to standardize the process while ensuring safety and can be universally adopted by state and local governments of all sizes.”

It’s the attractive dollar amount of setting up one’s own permitting process and costs that pushes a “national standard” off the table and towards oblivion as it kills one city, county “cash cow”, permitting fees and “plan reviews”.