7 Things Worth Reading This Week (8/25/23)

This article dives into all you need to know about installing on metal rooftops. It covers the three types: corrugated, standing-seam, and stone-coated steel and discusses best practices for mounting, chemical and electrical considerations, and offers perspectives from an actual commercial installer.

The CEO of Lumin digs into the salient points about why equity in solar and other renewables is a key element to transitioning to a clean economy. He talks about programs to advance equity, highlights the burden for LMI communities, and talks about the role of resi and community solar models.

Solar Builder spotlighted biz tips for installer pain points in this article, gleaned from interviews with leading companies. They looked at best practices for gathering leads, strengthening in-house sales teams, effectively using sales orgs, and lowering software costs and change orders.

Xcel Energy on Tuesday approached MN regulators to approve a $102 million set of transmission upgrades in order to help lower congestion and bring more renewables to the upper Midwest. Included in the project is the install of a second circuit on two segments of the existing Brookings County-Hampton transmission line.

In its 2023 Sustainability Report, First Solar self-reported that it encountered forced labor in its supply chain at a facility in Malaysia. They had conducted three onsite third-party audits at its manufacturing facilities in the US, Malaysia, and Vietnam as part of the Responsible Business Alliance Validated Assessment Program. The U.S. and Vietnam locations achieved the highest VAP rating.

In this video series Jon Bonnano and Kerim Baran interview MIT professor and Climate Change AI (CCAI) co-founder Priyav Donti regarding generative AI and machine learning. In this seventh of the ten-part series (and second portion of the 3 part series) Priyav discusses different paradigms and models in machine learning. The video is below.

In this video series Jon Bonnano and Kerim Baran interview MIT professor and Climate Change AI (CCAI) co-founder Priyav Donti regarding generative AI and machine learning. In this eighth of the ten-part series (and second portion of the 3 part series) they look at the fact that machine learning has the ability to perform tasks at scale, optimize complex systems through reinforcement learning, create derived data from large and raw datasets, and effectively analyze patterns across various types of data sources, enabling powerful correlations and actionable insights. The video is below.