Welcome to MSEIA

MSEIA, the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association, is a solar energy advocacy trade association which represents New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Established in 1997 by solar energy advocates, MSEIA is an historic and highly-effective non-profit membership organization created to advocate for solar energy incentives, create permanent solar energy jobs, a renewable energy infrastructure, and promote solar energy as a viable and important electric and hot water source. MSEIA accomplishes this by researching, designing and advocating for policies to grow solar energy; educate the public and policy-makers on the facts of solar energy and to remove barriers; promote local solar R&D and solar manufacturing; assist in designing policies and infrastructure to support solar on the local, state, and regional level; to inculcate solar electric and thermal energy as a significant portion of the energy supply; work in tangent with municipalities and local government to utilize and support rapid adoption of solar energy; and provide real-time data and experiences to demonstrate the value of solar energy in reducing global warming gasses and criteria air pollutants.

MSEIA was one of the original “SEIA chapters” that evolved out of the then nascent national Washington, D.C. based solar policy organization, SEIA –The Solar Energy Industries Association. MSEIA continues to be a regional affiliate of SEIA. Regionally, MSEIA’s New Jersey Division advocates approached the NJ Legislature in 1998, and advocated for the creation of a renewable energy fund, which was won and now called the NJ Clean Energy Program. In the Pennsylvania Division, members and advocates have worked since 2000 on establishing the first solar rebate incentive program “The Sunshine Program” and are now working on passage of Pennsylvania’s Renewable Portfolio Standard for Solar.

Members of MSEIA include solar contractors, installers, and/or developers (aka integrators), engineers, electricians, renewable energy consultants, solar R&D firms, solar manufacturers, and service providers to the solar industry (insurance, financing, legal, accounting). MSEIA encourages its members to practice only ethical business practices, and to ensure best practices in solar installations. The result is a new renewable energy economy which fosters green jobs and decreases the use of fossil fuels. MSEIA is an IRS approved 501 C-6 non-profit organization.