Job Market

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]