Solar Energy Industries Association

{{Short description|American non-profit}}

{{Prose|date=July 2019}}

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| headquarters = Washington, D.C., United States

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| leader_name = Abigail Ross Hopper

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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is the American national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.seia.org |title=SEIA Homepage |access-date=2015-03-26}} In 2019, the group reported at least 1,000 member companies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.seia.org/about|title=About SEIA|website=SEIA|language=en|access-date=2019-07-16}}

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SEIA is a 501(c)6 non-profit trade association. The association supports the extension of a 30 percent federal solar investment tax credit for eight years.{{cite web|url=http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/10/seia-launches-new-campaign-to-extend-solar-investment-tax-credit |title=SEIA Launches New Campaign to Extend Solar Investment Tax Credit |access-date=2015-03-26}}

With the recent high flux of green jobs in the solar industry, SEIA maintains a resource for those looking for solar jobs.{{cite web |url=http://www.seia.org/solar-jobs |title=Solar Jobs | SEIA |website=www.seia.org |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804021209/http://www.seia.org/solar-jobs |archive-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=dead}} The Harvard Business Review{{Cite journal|url=https://hbr.org/2016/08/what-if-all-u-s-coal-workers-were-retrained-to-work-in-solar|title=What if All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?|journal=Harvard Business Review|date=8 August 2016|last1=Pearce|first1=Joshua M.}} claims that the solar industry could absorb all of the jobs lost to the coal industry as it shutters. By 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, the solar industry employed more workers in the energy generation industry than all fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) combined.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/01/25/u-s-solar-energy-employs-more-people-than-oil-coal-and-gas-combined-infographic/|title=Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined|last=McCarthy|first=Niall|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-07-16}}

An independent but strategically aligned organization, The Solar Foundation, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which develops education & outreach programs to promote the further development of solar energy in the U.S.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesolarfoundation.org/about-the-solar-foundation/|title=About Us - Solar Energy Nonprofit|website=The Solar Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-27}}