A Chance to Earn $1000 and Tell Your Story of the Impact of Education – HeatSpring’s Stay Curious Campaign We’re looking for individuals in the clean energy sector to share their personal experiences of how education has transformed their careers and impacted their communities. HeatSpring’s new Stay Curious campaign recognizes the value of continuous learning in the clean energy… Continue reading “A Chance to Earn $1000 and Tell Your Story of the Impact of Education – HeatSpring’s Stay Curious Campaign”
An Incubator for Home Performance Contractors “Boosting Contractor Capacity to Meet Home Performance Demand” is a live webinar that will happen on Wednesday August 14th @ 1pm eastern (USA). The edited presentation will then be available here as a free course. We are going to present a… Continue reading “An Incubator for Home Performance Contractors”
Spanish Language Captions Now Available on HeatSpring Courses HeatSpring offers Spanish language captions on our online courses. This feature is designed to support learners who speak English as a second language, providing them with the option to read along in their native Spanish while engaging with the course… Continue reading “Spanish Language Captions Now Available on HeatSpring Courses”
Around the Solar World in 80 Days A journey into the heart of the growing clean energy sector and what we learned while we were there It’s no secret that the solar industry is facing an unprecedented time in our evolution. The opportunities have never been greater,… Continue reading “Around the Solar World in 80 Days”
Love Letter to Clean Energy People January 1, 2024 2024 might get weird. Don’t worry, just keep doing your thing. Let’s focus on what we can control. It’s fun to be learning and spending our time doing creative things that matter, right? Whatever work you choose… Continue reading “Love Letter to Clean Energy People”
White Paper: Best Practices for Teaching Clean Energy Skills This is the second white paper in our “Researcher-in-Residence” series. A PDF version of this white paper, along with supplementary videos, is available in the free course, “What Data Tells Us About Teaching & Learning Clean Energy Skills“. Courses on… Continue reading “White Paper: Best Practices for Teaching Clean Energy Skills”
Solar Onboarding 102 – Now Free for Members & Their Friends Starting today, for a limited time, “Solar Onboarding 102 for Non-Solar Professionals” is free for HeatSpring Members and their guests. Members can give the class for free to somebody they know who wants to get started in the solar industry.… Continue reading “Solar Onboarding 102 – Now Free for Members & Their Friends”
White Paper: Best Practices for Learning Clean Energy Skills This is the first white paper in our “Researcher-in-Residence” series. A PDF version of this white paper is available in the free course, “What Data Tells Us About Teaching & Learning Clean Energy Skills“. In this article we examine three… Continue reading “White Paper: Best Practices for Learning Clean Energy Skills”
What Data Tells Us About Teaching & Learning Clean Energy Skills “What Data Tells Us About Teaching & Learning Clean Energy Skills” is a new free course where Brick Maier is publishing all of his findings from the Researcher-in-Residence project. About HeatSpring’s “Researcher in Residence” Project Enrollment is way up at… Continue reading “What Data Tells Us About Teaching & Learning Clean Energy Skills”
Let’s Meet @ RE+ in Las Vegas RE+ is the biggest solar conference in North America. This year it’s happening in Las Vegas on September 11-14, 2023. It’s impossible to see everything at a huge show like this. So here are some of the events that we… Continue reading “Let’s Meet @ RE+ in Las Vegas”
New Solar Onboarding Course – Free for Members & Their Guests We need more good people in the solar industry. If you know somebody ready to jump in, here’s a fun way to help them to be successful: Starting today, for a limited time, “Solar Onboarding 101 for Non-Solar Professionals” is… Continue reading “New Solar Onboarding Course – Free for Members & Their Guests”
An update from Team HeatSpring To our valued students, Transparency is one of the core values at HeatSpring. In an effort to remain transparent and open with you, we wanted to give you a heads up that we will be increasing many of our course… Continue reading “An update from Team HeatSpring”
Learning & Development Leaders are the Unsung Heroes of Solar How can the solar industry fill 900,000 new jobs over the next twelve years?* Without learning and development (L&D) leadership, we can’t. Learning and development leaders help us build successful and rewarding careers. They do the hard work required to… Continue reading “Learning & Development Leaders are the Unsung Heroes of Solar”
61% of Solar Power World’s Top Contractors use HeatSpring for Employee Learning Solar Power World produces an annual list of top solar contractors in the U.S. They rank EPCs, subcontractors, and developers by installation volume for the previous year. In 2022 there were 411 solar contractors on the list, and 251 of… Continue reading “61% of Solar Power World’s Top Contractors use HeatSpring for Employee Learning”
The best time to get into climate technology was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. Want to hear a true story about the growth happening in renewable energy? In 2005 Dan Leary and Will Thompson – two veterans – started a solar company called Nexamp in North Andover, Massachusetts. Committed to expanding access to clean energy, the company grew out of… Continue reading “The best time to get into climate technology was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Project Managers & Interconnection Specialists Needed to Build 437GW of New Utility-Scale Solar Wood Mackenzie projects the U.S. utility-scale PV market will add 437 GW between 2022 and 2032. That’s 43,700 MW every year for ten years. It’s a staggering number and no solar company has the people they need to deliver at… Continue reading “Project Managers & Interconnection Specialists Needed to Build 437GW of New Utility-Scale Solar”
Join us Nov 1-3 at the OSCC conference in Portland Next week I’ll be attending the Oregon Solar + Storage Conference in Portland, Oregon. HeatSpring will be tabling at the career expo on Tuesday so make sure to stop by and say hi. If you haven’t registered, click here to… Continue reading “Join us Nov 1-3 at the OSCC conference in Portland”
An Easy Win: I Will Set Up a Free Employee Learning Platform for Your Team The solar industry needs more people. So every solar company leader should know about this free benefit: For $0 any solar company can use HeatSpring as a learning platform to train employees. You can request yours right now. It takes… Continue reading “An Easy Win: I Will Set Up a Free Employee Learning Platform for Your Team”
Why Teach? Why HeatSpring? – A Chat with HeatSpring Co-Founder Brian Hayden HeatSpring is an expert-led platform for professionals in solar, cleantech, and many other forward thinking industries. Any expert can build free or paid classes on the platform at no cost and start right away. Listen in as HeatSpring Co-Founder Brian… Continue reading “Why Teach? Why HeatSpring? – A Chat with HeatSpring Co-Founder Brian Hayden”
Have You Ever Thought About Teaching? That’s a question I ask almost everybody who’s been successful in their career. At some point you arrive at a place where you look around and wonder, ‘what’s next?’. Your options are infinite, but teaching will be appealing if things… Continue reading “Have You Ever Thought About Teaching?”