{"id":22,"date":"2022-01-28T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/?p=22"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:44:10","slug":"nj-development-law-update-nj-legislates-new-warehouse-construction-be-solar-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/nj-development-law-update-nj-legislates-new-warehouse-construction-be-solar-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Development Law Update: NJ Legislates New Warehouse Construction be &#8220;Solar Ready&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a continuing effort to support the widespread installation of solar generating systems on commercial rooftops, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill (A-3352\/S-3504) requiring that newly constructed warehouses be designed as \u201csolar-ready buildings.\u201d The bill, which was signed into law on November 8, 2021, applies to warehouses for which an application for a construction permit has not been declared complete by the enforcing entity by July 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Any warehouse declared complete after July 1, 2022 must be deemed solar-ready.<\/li><li>Solar-ready warehouse are defined as any building, room, structure, or facility of at least 100,000 SF used primarily for the storage of goods intended for sale located in a solar-ready zone.<\/li><li>Solar-ready zones are 40% of the roof area, neglecting area covered by skylights, occupied roof decks, vegetative roof areas, and mandatory access or set back areas, must be free from obstructions.<ul><li>i.e. pipes, vents, ducts, HVAC equipment<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Due to the increasing warehouse industry, New Jersey\u2019s goal is to generate 34% of its total electricity consumption by 2050 with this new bill.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact our team to learn more about how this may impact your development project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a continuing effort to support the widespread installation of solar generating systems on commercial rooftops, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill (A-3352\/S-3504) requiring that newly constructed warehouses be designed as \u201csolar-ready buildings.\u201d The bill, which was signed into law on November 8, 2021, applies to warehouses for which an application for a construction permit has not been declared complete by the enforcing entity by July 1, 2022. Any&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insiteeng.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}