Growth

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 […]

It’s a quiet post-holiday afternoon in New Jersey, as I sit in my recliner next to my drying-out Christmas tree, getting ready to write my monthly Recruiter’s Outlook. I can hear the snow melting off my rooftop solar panels on this particularly warm day on the east coast. In digging through the archives of my […]

On November 20, 2025, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) published the 15th annual National Solar Jobs Census. Accepting an invitation from the IREC, I had the opportunity to preview the new data on jobs from the past year, and write the foreword to provide my perspective on the state of the energy storage and […]

As Nvidia becomes the first company in history to top $5T in market value (purely on data center revenue!) and Amazon lays off 14,000 people because of AI related efficiencies, I have flashbacks. Having cut my teeth in talent acquisition during the telecom bubble and burst, there were countless companies whose valuations far exceeded their […]

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 […]

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 […]