Oct 13, 2021 | Renewable Energy
Europe has been developing offshore wind farms for decades, but in the United States today this industry is starting to grow exponentially. The 30 MW Block Island Wind Farm – the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. – was completed in 2016, and the 12 MW Coastal...
Sep 7, 2021 | Electric Power, Renewable Energy
If you want to be a part of America’s drive to electric vehicles, working for an energy company is a good place to be. Building rapid charging stations. Generating and moving clean power to where and when it is needed. Solving complex IT and information analysis...
Sep 3, 2021 | A Day in the Life Of, Renewable Energy
Kiera Nelson’s day literally starts with the sun. As a solar technician for Southern Power, Nelson’s necessary tasks working with solar inverters – the brains of a solar power installation – may start sooner in summer when the sun rises earlier or later in winter when...
Sep 3, 2021 | General, Renewable Energy
Picture a large manufacturing plant with delivery trucks fanning out on one-way roads. The manufacturer decides what the customers get and when. Now think of millions of scattered manufacturing plants with outputs constantly changing. Customers have morphed into...
Sep 3, 2021 | A Day in the Life Of, Renewable Energy
Vern Cochran believes there are three areas for work that are extremely reliable – no matter what the economy is doing at the time. “People need to eat, people need fuel, and people need power,” he says. Cochran has worked in all three of these areas, but he believes,...
