Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Charlin Bodley of RMI’s Energy Transition Academy
Plus, climatetech career and board moves at Nextracker, Tesla, Arcadia, American Clean Power, The Engine, Kevala, The Guardian, sonnen and more.
Eric Wesoff is the executive director at Canary Media. He’s a prominent industry journalist, analyst, consultant, speaker, and expert witness in the renewable energy field. Previously he served as senior editor for solar publication pv magazine. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief at green technology market analysis and media firm Greentech Media. He has been published or quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Wired. He has expertise in clean technology investing and finance, utility structures and regulatory climate, solar power, energy storage, microgrids, and the electrical grid. He lives south of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, very close to the world’s largest utility-scale battery.
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Solar
How robots could dramatically speed up solar farm construction
A number of companies are now using automation and AI to expedite utility-scale solar installations, ease labor shortages and protect workers from unsafe conditions.By Eric Wesoff .
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Wind
Chart: Wind turbine prices surged to decade high in 2022
Surging commodity prices have reversed a trend of falling costs, but wind power remains one of the cheapest — and cleanest — forms of electricity generation around.By Dan McCarthy, Eric Wesoff .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Jen Betz, CFO at Element Energy
Plus, climatetech career moves at Palmetto, Verne, Rewiring America, Vision Ridge, Tierra Climate, American Clean Power and more. -
Solar
Are new solar tariffs coming soon? Here's what you need to know
The House just voted to undo a pause on solar tariffs. If the repeal becomes law, tariffs would derail the U.S. solar rollout this year — but that's unlikely.By Dan McCarthy, Eric Wesoff .
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Clean energy
Chart: Americans actually agree on supporting solar and wind power
But polling data shows a big partisan divide and age gap on the question of whether climate change is a serious problem.By Eric Wesoff, Dan McCarthy .
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Nuclear
Avalanche raises $40M to pursue vision of tiny nuclear fusion reactor
The startup is spurning room-sized reactors in favor of a small, modular design. But it’s unclear when or if fusion technology — large or small — will pan out.By Eric Wesoff .
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Energy storage
Tesla's battery-storage sales are growing way faster than EV sales
Deployments of Tesla batteries surged 360% as the EV maker opened a factory for grid-scale batteries. Now it’s getting into lithium refining too.By Eric Wesoff .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Doseke Akporiaye, executive director of WRISE
Plus, climatetech career moves at SunPower, Silicon Ranch, Heila, Schletter, Sesame Solar, Mission Control Communications, Amasia and more. -
Solar
A firsthand look at a California solar farm with 'earth-mounted' panels
Erthos wants to reinvent solar farms with ground-mounted panels that it says can reduce utility solar costs by 20 percent. We went to see how it all works.By Eric Wesoff .
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