Applications to Become a Trade Ally: 

Trade Ally Registration Process

If your company fulfills all of the requirements listed below, you may begin the trade ally registration process. Please include the NJCEP project number in the comments section when you submit your listing.

The registration process can take up to four weeks. Please do not contact the program team until the appropriate amount of time has elapsed. After four weeks, you can send an email to njreinfo@njcleanenergy.com.

Note: In the event that an employee or group of employees from a company on the trade ally database leaves to start their own company, the new company will not be listed on the trade ally database until the new company completes all of the requirements needed to become a trade ally.

Assistance to Distressed Customers and Operations & Maintenance Trade Ally Registration Process

Solar Installers wishing to be listed in one of these two categories should submit a Trade Ally Application by clicking on "Begin Registration Process" below, and in addition, submit required supporting documents.

Please complete the following online application. You will receive a fully executed copy to the email address that you provide to Adobe. Once received, please forward the signed PDF with any required supporting documents to, njreinfo@njcleanenergy.com.

Successful applicants must meet the standards and criteria set forth in the application. Additional information can be found below.

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Trade Ally Registration Requirements:

How to Participate as a Vendor

New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (NJCEP) invites installers and manufacturers to be a part of the program's trade ally database.

Requirements to be listed on the trade ally database include:

• If you have never been scheduled for a SRP inspection, please include a cover letter with your next SRP Registration submission requesting a program inspection. Once you have passed an inspection by a NJCEP representative you will be eligible to be approved to be listed in the NJCEP Trade Ally Database. Please include the NJCEP SRP project number in the comment sections of the trade ally request form.
• Become a legal entity recognized by the State of New Jersey to conduct business in the state.
• Meet insurance requirements set by the State of New Jersey.
• Comply with all tax and licensing requirements for doing business in the state.
• Review the programs within the NJCEP website, forms, guidebook and all relevant program updates.
• Hold a non-expired New Jersey electrical contractor license and include the name of the NJ electrical license holder, NJ license number and expiration date on each SRP registration that they submit.

Additional Requirements:

Solar Equipment Manufacturers

• Solar Equipment Manufacturers - Modules must be UL listed or UL certified through a nationally recognized testing laboratory.
• Solar Inverter Manufacturers - Inverters must be certified as compliant with the requirements of IEEE 929 for small photovoltaic systems and with UL 1741 (for Level 1 and 2 interconnections only) or UL certified through a nationally recognized testing laboratory.

Assistance for Distressed Customers 

Assistance for Distressed Customers was created to help distressed customers with projects that were abandoned by their solar installer. It will do so by providing a resource to facilitate the customers’ search for a new solar installer. NJCEP records reflect that such projects are at various stages of maturity, ranging from those for which only an initial registration has been submitted to those that have received Permission to Operate (PTO) and require only completion and submission of their post-construction certification packages. NJBPU and TRC are encouraging such distressed customers to seriously consider hiring a new installer to assist them in completing their projects and registrations.

Operations & Maintenance

Operations and Maintenance was created to help customers who are interested in engaging a contractor to maintain and/or repair their systems post-installation. This interest can arise from, among other things, the initial installer ceasing operations or one party or the other choosing not to continue their relationship on an ongoing basis.

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Sign up for the Renewable Energy Listserv

To keep up with NJCEP renewable energy programs, join our listserv.

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Contractor Remediation Procedures

The Board of Public Utilities approved procedures related to remediation of NJCEP contractor issues. The Contractor Remediation Procedure sets out the policy.