The Recruiter's Outlook

Everywhere you click, it’s difficult not to see a negative news article about renewable energy in the United States. Very few days go by that a project has been derailed or flat-out failed by the current political landscape. And the impact is both upstream and downstream–land and water project development, project financing, manufacturing costs, and […]

This month, I’m wearing a different hat for my Recruiter’s Outlook, the marketing one. While I have 25 years of executive recruiting experience, I’m also fascinated by marketing; it brings out my creative side, so I’m always working in parallel on developing that area of the business as well. I take great pride in building […]

Six months into the Trump Presidency and it’s fair to say that renewable energy optimism is officially waning. It seems like an eternity since the market boomed from the emergence from the pandemic, the Great Resignation, and the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act. More recently, even as our industry investments slowed with the rise […]

Well, almost everything. RE+ Events boasted that they gathered over 2,000 energy professionals for their RE+ Texas event earlier this month in Houston. For attendance at regional shows, this puts RE+ Texas just behind RE+ Northeast, which is pretty impressive for a renewable energy conference focused on a single US state. I’ve been attending the […]

Tuesday was a beautiful, sunny, spring day in New York City. A perfect day for solar energy production and catching rays! Instead of sunning in Central Park, I joined 250 renewable energy professionals at the US Development & Finance Forum run by NPM Events. New Project Media (NPM) is better known for their project development […]

Having worked in or owned a small business for 25 years, I’ve always put a big emphasis on building relationships that started with an in-person meeting on a trade show exhibition floor. I’ve been to hundreds of conferences and trade shows in my career and can vividly recall which customer I met at which event. […]