Economic Modeling Basics for A Solar Project Happening on the Solar Executive MBA Discussion Board… ___________________________________ Construction Debt/Loans, SRECs & Purchasing vs. Leasing a Site Student 1: 1. What is the difference between project debt and the construction loan? 2. What is SREC and Single SREC? 3. If the… Continue reading “Economic Modeling Basics for A Solar Project”
GRP Exam: What to Know, What to Study On the Green Roof Professional (GRP) Accreditation Training discussion board… Student 1: With the GRP exam coming up quickly, I’m wondering what you can tell us about what to expect in the exam. Is the Week 10 exercise an example of what… Continue reading “GRP Exam: What to Know, What to Study”
HeatSpring Integrates With LinkedIn Want to see where energy and sustainability education is headed? Here’s a cool little innovation that says a lot about the role we’d like to play in the energy and sustainability industry: LinkedIn recently released a feature that allows us to… Continue reading “HeatSpring Integrates With LinkedIn”
Modernizing Enterprise Data Centers for Fun and Profit Twenty first century data centers are the crown jewels of global business. No modern company can run without them, and they deliver business value vastly exceeding their costs. The big hyperscale computing companies (like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook) are… Continue reading “Modernizing Enterprise Data Centers for Fun and Profit”
5 Tips for Managing the Offer Process Have you ever walked out of a job interview knowing everything about it except what the position pays? Or, were you too bold and asked about money, benefits and vacation time when you walked in the door? I don’t recommend… Continue reading “5 Tips for Managing the Offer Process”
Solar Women Summer Series: Funding Sun Through Solar Investing/Borrowing We’re wrapping up the Solar Women Summer Series, and Audrey Desiderato, the Co-Founder/ COO of SunFunder, is helping us end things on a sunny note! SunFunder finances solar projects “beyond the grid” and offers investors opportunities to help fund offgrid solar projects, as… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Funding Sun Through Solar Investing/Borrowing”
FREE REPORT: Gain Access to the ~290,258 LIDAR Identified Solar-Ready Roofs in Massachusetts This article was originally published on Faze1’s blog and re-printed with permission. The above picture is a heat map of the best and worst towns for residential solar based on proprietary LIDAR analysis created by Faze1. Download the full report to get a… Continue reading “FREE REPORT: Gain Access to the ~290,258 LIDAR Identified Solar-Ready Roofs in Massachusetts”
Free Solar Design Tool: String Sizing Tool For Commercial Solar Projects That Works with All Inverters One of the most important aspects of designing a solar array is sizing module strings to operate within the parameters of the selected inverter. This is especially true for commercial and megawatt solar projects. To help in this process, we’re… Continue reading “Free Solar Design Tool: String Sizing Tool For Commercial Solar Projects That Works with All Inverters”
Free “Data Center Cost Calculator” from Stanford’s Jonathan Koomey Jonathan Koomey created a simple Excel model for determining true total cost of ownership for data centers that you can customize and use for your company projects. Dr. Koomey was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal article titled, “Zombie… Continue reading “Free “Data Center Cost Calculator” from Stanford’s Jonathan Koomey”
Free Hydronics Design Software from John Siegenthaler The Hydronics Design Studio Professional version is a set of powerful software tools to assist heating professional in designing high performance hydronic heating systems. It represents the state-of-the-art in computer-assisted design for modern hydronic heating systems. Powerful engineering simulation and… Continue reading “Free Hydronics Design Software from John Siegenthaler”
Solar Women Summer Series: Silicor CEO & WiSE Award Winner Terry Jester We met Terry Jester, CEO of Silicor Materials, at the WiSE Luncheon during the ASES Solar 2015 Conference at Penn State. She spoke with us about her role as CEO, the benefits of solar silicon, Silicor’s Icelandic expansion and her… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Silicor CEO & WiSE Award Winner Terry Jester”
Oakland, CA Inside Sales Professional Position PVComplete Insides Sales Professional Position in Oakland, CA. Job Title: Inside Sales Professional Location: Downtown Oakland, CA Overview: PVComplete is fast growing solar software startup based in downtown Oakland. Our flagship product is the PVComplete solar design software platform. Our… Continue reading “Oakland, CA Inside Sales Professional Position”
Solar Women Summer Series: Cycle For Science The Solar Women Summer Series continues! Meet Elizabeth Case and Rachel Woods-Robinson, the young women behind Cycle For Science, a cross-country education initiative and journey. What is Cycle For Science? Why did you set out on this journey? Rachel: Cycle for Science is both a journey… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Cycle For Science”
Get Building Before NESEA’s BuildingEnergy NYC 2015 BuildingEnergy NYC 2015 “BuildingEnergy NYC is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary conference that offers practical, hands-on solutions to the financial, environmental, legal, and maintenance challenges facing NYC building owners and practitioners in every neighborhood and borough. Conceived in 2012 and nearly… Continue reading “Get Building Before NESEA’s BuildingEnergy NYC 2015”
4 Tips to Strengthen Your Resume and Land a Hot Job Your resume is only one piece of the job hunting puzzle. It is a one dimensional representation of your life’s work, and getting it right may mean investing many hours and a lot of effort to polish it. Don’t downplay its… Continue reading “4 Tips to Strengthen Your Resume and Land a Hot Job”
Solar Women Summer Series: Law and Business in the Solar Industry This week’s Solar Women Summer Series features Chelsea Turner and Latasha Terry, employees at Solar Frontier Latasha (right): Legal Counsel J.D./M.B.A. with Solar Frontier Chelsea (left): Business Development Manager with Solar Frontier Tell us your stories. How did you get involved in the… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Law and Business in the Solar Industry”
Enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage, Get Wes Kennedy’s Battery Selector Tool! Why enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage? You’ll access the Battery Selector Tool! Decide the best battery for your application, from a cost perspective. This is a great tool for engineers, designers, and decision makers when determining the best battery to use… Continue reading “Enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage, Get Wes Kennedy’s Battery Selector Tool!”
Free Lecture: Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage Sign up for Christopher LaForge’s FREE Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage Lecture today! In this video lecture, Chris explains how commercial scale storage will affect the market for commercial clients, some of the major players that are in the current expanding… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage”
HeatSpring Solar Alumnae: From Courses to Consultants & CEOs! This Solar Women Summer Series interview features two HeatSpring Solar course alumnae, Karma Edwards and Shelley Cohen. Karma Edwards (left), MBA, LEED AP is an independent consultant for Energy Engineering and Business Development. Karma completed our Solar PV Installer Boot Camp… Continue reading “HeatSpring Solar Alumnae: From Courses to Consultants & CEOs!”
What’s On the NABCEP Solar PV Technical Sales Exam? If you click in the image it will take you to the NABCEP PV Technical Sales Resource Guide. It’s a 28-page document that is definitely worth an hour for any solar salesperson. That’s how IREC and NABCEP define your role… Continue reading “What’s On the NABCEP Solar PV Technical Sales Exam?”