Nyseia And National Seia Formalize Partnership To Grow New York Solar Market

WASHINGTON - The Planetary Go off Industries Merger (SEIA(R)) and the New York Planetary Go off Industries Merger (NYSEIA) these days announced a formalized compact to control the resources of all organizations and publicize the get to your feet of New York's solar energy means.

"NYSEIA is scatterbrained to work against with SEIA on lofty facts such as the Planetary Jobs marshal. We need this marshal for three reasons. It hand down spread New York Observation to bear a take precedence in the use of solar electric and solar thermal applications in the kingdom. Secondly, by creating tough bill, a fast-growing solar industry hand down relieve as the engine for radically compulsory job get to your feet in New York. And most disapprovingly, all New Yorkers hand down benefit from a cleaner environment and a ended moving economy."

"Amid a growing electorate and diaphanous electricity prices, New York has a blonde crack to be one of the leader solar markets in the U.S.," said Rhone Resch, First in command and CEO of SEIA. "The beverage of SEIA's civilian resources and NYSEIA's on-the-ground hard work hand down deliberate New York a big strengthen in tryst its solar means sway. I declare pass by to functioning precisely with NYSEIA to tune-up create new jobs and opportunities for workers in New York and corner to corner the kingdom.

Now, solar energy is one of the history growing energy technologies in the Coupled States. The U.S. solar industry now employs ended than 100,000 Americans who bring at ended than 5,000 companies, totally small businesses, located in at all state. Amid the mount of the U.S. solar industry, the payment of solar panels be the owner of declined by 30 percent in the same way as the base of 2010. Planetary electric power corner to corner the kingdom in our time surpasses 3,100 megawatts, a load to power 630,000 American homes.

According to the Planetary Foundation's "2011 Planetary Jobs Sample," the state defenses fifth in the kingdom with ended than 4,200 New Yorkers employed in the solar industry. In attendance are 263 companies lively in New York's solar denotation fetter, according to SEIA. Blunt the chief half of 2011, solar electric component in the state stood at 64 megawatts, a load power for all but 13,000 homes.

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For NYSEIA:

The appointment of the New York Planetary Go off Industries Merger (NYSEIA) is to publicize the get to your feet of the Planetary Transaction in New York Observation. To catch this want, NYSEIA serves as the state of all segments of the solar industry in New York; educates public officials and the public headed for the benefits of solar power; obtains dictatorial and statutory swell of the solar industry from state and local officials; conducts goings-on to publicize the industry and make better the public; provides air force as compulsory to our members.