The Recruiter's Outlook

There’s no question that it’s been a difficult year for many parts of our industry. We’ve all watched as projects get canceled or delayed, companies reduce headcount, and experienced people unexpectedly find themselves looking for work. This headline caught my attention last week: the U.S. clean energy industry lost nearly 37,000 jobs in 2025, according […]

For the 16 years I’ve worked in the industry, renewable energy companies have measured growth in gigawatts. The bigger the pipeline, the better the story for investors, customers, and prospective hires. In 2026, how much of that pipeline actually gets built matters more than how big it is. The July 4 deadline for wind and […]

Earlier this week, the FCC added foreign-made “connected power inverters” to their Covered List of equipment and services under their watch, citing national security concerns. The FCC is also now preventing any new models from being issued by inverter manufacturers.  While existing models of inverters are fine, this new policy puts a real expiration date on today’s supply […]

The past month took me from Washington DC for the CCSA Community & Distributed Energy Innovation Summit to CleanPower in Houston and finally to Intersolar Midwest in Chicago, where I had the opportunity to lead an Executive Forum on workforce strategy in a volatile market. While each conference focused on a different segment of the […]

I spent part of this week at the NPM U.S. Power & Data Center Development Forum 2026 in New York, and one theme kept coming up in every conversation: power.  Not climate goals. Not long-term strategy. Just, where is the power going to come from and how fast can we get it?! Data centers have quickly become […]

I just got back from Costa Rica, which has, for the last decade, famously relied on a diverse mix of renewable energy to power its 11 TWh grid, part of a long-standing national tradition of protecting the earth and a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Although Costa Rica is not densely populated, with […]