Over the past 3 years, SEIAPI has grown to a base of 61 members, with 37 industry members, 20 associate members and 4 manufacturer category members. All the Pacific electrical utilities are automatic members of SEIAPI under an MOU with Pacific Power Association. SEIAPI has held an Annual General Meeting over the recent years and its Executive Committee members are renewable energy stakeholders who come from 3 different countries in the PICTs region. SEIAPI’s members are from many other countries (in addition to the Pacific Islands). SEIAPI communicates with its members through its website, secretariat email (secretariat@seiapi.com) and through monthly newsletters as well as its Linkedin forum, which currently has over 1300 members. SEIAPI has developed a ”SEIAPI Achievements and Objectives” document which is available from this link that lists the SEIAPI acievements and objectives:

SEIAPI Achievement and Objectives October 2025

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Since its inception the association has undertaken the following:

  • In 2022, SEIAPI began discussions with an American philanthropic foundation resulting in an agreement to construct the Pacific Regional Sustainable Energy Training Centre at USP’s Pacific TAFE campus in Suva. The centre will open in 2026.
  • The development of the 16 RE and EE technical guidelines and 19 PRQS accredited unit standards for the Pacific under the World Bank funded SEIDP project (2018-2020)
  • Since 2011 SEIAPI has collaborated with numerous organisations including the University of the South Pacific (USP; 2011-the present), the Pacific Power Association (PPA; 2014-present), and numerous national training organisations to provide competent technicians to improve the quality of PICT solar installations.
  • Through a SEIAPI-MDF collaboration, SEIAPI is assisting financial institutions to develop minimum requirements for solar financing that could be used by the institutions to vet loans for solar projects, derisk and ensure sustainability of projects
  • An MOU with the Pacific Power Association (PPA) to work together on renewable issues which benefits members of the two associations including: standards and guidelines, the certification/accreditation.
  • SEIAPI has also developed PV system inspection checklists. These can be used by electrical inspectors to inspect grid-connected solar systems to ensure they have been installed in accordance with relevant standards. The current 2024 checklist covers Australian and New Zealand Standards.
  • In 2024 SEIAPI initiated a trial programme of training power utility inspectors on the AS/NZ standards, with one-day sessions with engineers/inspectors from the Electric Power Corporation (Samoa) Energy Fiji Limited and the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission.
  • SEIAPI is liaising with the Tonga National university to have the solar training units accredited through the Tonga National Qualifications and Assessment Board.
  • In 2019, the German aid organisation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), purchased a license for GSES resource material for in-person training courses and this would eventually benefit SEIAPI members and the solar industry as a whole.

Full document here:

SEIAPI Achievement and Objectives October 2025