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Solar installer urges SFFD to avoid new plan-check requirements as federal tax credits expire
Summary
A San Francisco solar contractor told the Fire Commission that local plan-check comments are adding requirements beyond the California Fire Code and urged the department to apply existing code standards and speed plan reviews before a forecasted year-end installation surge.
A San Francisco solar and energy-storage contractor told the Fire Commission on July 9 that planned federal tax-credit changes will likely create a year-end surge in rooftop solar and battery installations that could overwhelm San Francisco Fire Department plan review capacity.
Eric Schoonberg, director of engineering at Luminalt, said changes at the federal level will end residential tax credits for solar and energy storage at the end of the year and that many residents are…
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