Hiring Trends

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 […]

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 […]

February for solar and energy storage professionals means RE+ Northeast (strangely mis-timed with a blizzard this year!) and Intersolar North America. If you’re one of the 15,000 renewable professionals who attended one of these coastal mainstays in our industry, you may have heard a little buzz about urgency as we head into the start of […]

January has a very different feel than December, and not just because most of the US is in a deep freeze. The decorations are packed away, inboxes are filling back up, and everyone in renewable energy is settling into the realities of the new year. I’m catching up on conversations that paused in late December […]