A little more than a year ago, Standard Solar was purchased by Montreal-based energy giant Gaz Métro. For a lot of people—including some in our own organization—the question was this: What will the acquisition mean for Standard Solar’s longstanding goal of being the best solar...
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In 2005, the solar industry wasn’t the unstoppable behemoth it is today. In fact, just a handful of firms were in the market at all, and many of those were already well on their way to failure. Enter my friend Neville Williams, a former journalist, who...
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Header Photo: Prince Harry solar installation. Photo credit: PanelClaw/Sunfixings Could the newest royal couple finally finish the work Prince Charles started? When Prince Harry and TV drama Suits star Meghan Markle became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, they signaled to the rest of the world that...
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Financing any solar project is a challenge, but funding commercial solar projects is particularly difficult. The question is why—but a quick analysis shows it isn’t all that difficult to understand. After all, the solar industry is littered with the hollowed out hulls of companies that garnered...
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1) What is your role at Standard Solar? I became the human resources manager at the end of March. 2) What made you think working in solar would be rewarding and fun? I didn’t know a lot about solar going in, but the thought of learning about a...
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