Enrollment is way up at HeatSpring, but if we’re going to train millions of people for clean energy jobs, we’ve got to keep getting better. This is a series of articles, papers, and free courses to help learners, instructors, training leaders, and educators level-up their game.

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 HeatSpring. But if we’re going to train millions of people for clean energy jobs, we’ve got to […]

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 will be attending, plus alternative options for the people who can’t make the trip to Vegas:

Monday […]

Leadership in Utility-Scale Solar Construction

I want to share some interesting stats about jobs in utility-scale solar, from IREC’s Annual Solar Job Census, which they’ve just published in July 2023:

65% of all solar jobs are doing installation & project development work, and about half of those jobs are on bigger projects: commercial and utility-scale solar.

97% of solar companies say […]

Meeting the Demands of the Solar Plus Era: Why Shaw Solar is Launching their Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Electrical Apprenticeship Program

Based in Durango, Colorado, Shaw Solar can be described as a big fish in a small pond. Opening their doors back in 2006, they initially worked on residential and small commercial solar thermal and PV and some lead-acid battery storage. They are a member of the Amicus Solar Cooperative and a certified B Corp. Today, […]

New Product Launch? Don’t Forget the People Part

You can’t just launch a product and expect to be successful. You know that. But companies do it all the time – they spend millions of dollars creating an amazing new thing that never takes off. Even really great products can fail.  

Just ask Anthony Wood. Before he founded Roku, Anthony created ReplayTV, an earlier and […]

April 12th, 2023|Categories: HeatSpring for Teams, Solar Product Training, Workforce Learning & Development||