Solar

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This February marks my 15th year attending RE+ Northeast (aka Solar Power Northeast, PV Conference & Expo, or PV America). No matter what you call it, it’s the best damn regional event in the United States and has been so for as long as I can remember. If you couldn’t make it to Boston in […]

As I get ready for my first renewable energy conference that requires flying over an ocean, I started thinking more about solar in the Caribbean. In a few weeks time, I will take off for San Juan, Puerto Rico for the annual SESA Summit. If you don’t know the backstory on SESA, I’ll fill you in: Solar […]