Workforce diversity
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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Plus, climatetech career moves at Voltus, RWE, Shoals, FirstLight, Kore Power, Kraken, Amazon Web Services and Arcadia.
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Climatetech finance
Swell Energy acquires Renu to help build virtual power plants
The startup aims to combine privately owned batteries into grid resources. Renu, a regional battery installer, will help Swell access new markets.By Eric Wesoff .
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Solar
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the US just came online
The new California installation has nearly 2 million solar panels, more than 120,000 batteries, and an enormous amount of clean energy capacity.By Eric Wesoff .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Kim Ann Mink, board member at Group14 Technologies
Plus, climatetech career moves at QuantumScape, DOE, Fermata Energy, Nextracker, Verse, Aligned Climate Capital, Low Carbon Fuels Coalition and more. -
Nuclear
When will the next nuclear plant come online in the US? No one knows
Canary conducted an informal survey of nuclear industry watchers, enthusiasts and nerds — and the responses were all over the map.By Eric Wesoff .
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Solar
The fight over US solar tariffs hasn't gone away — it's just hibernating
A new lawsuit from Auxin Solar is an important reminder that the threat of destabilizing tariffs remains very real for the U.S. solar industry.By Eric Wesoff .
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Climatetech finance
5 cleantech startups that didn't survive to see 2024
Bird, Hyperloop One, Sunfolding and other VC-funded companies went belly up or bankrupt late last year. Here are key takeaways and lessons learned.By Eric Wesoff .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Malini Balakrishnan, CTO at Anza Renewables
Plus, climatetech career moves at Nextracker, Google, Array Technologies, Erthos, Drilled, the Climate Investment Funds and more. -
Climatetech finance
First Solar cashes in with sale of IRA tax credits worth up to $700M
The Ohio-based solar giant says it's the first major deal to use new tax-credit transfer provisions, which help firms maximize the value of clean energy subsidies.By Eric Wesoff .
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Suzanne Leta, head of policy and strategy at SunPower
Plus, climatetech career moves at Origami Solar, NextEra Energy Resources, Vineyard Offshore, Fermata Energy and more.
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