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Summit Ridge Energy and Qcells Announce Largest Community Solar Partnership in the U.S.
Adam Kuehne, Brian Dunn, HG Park, Steve Raeder, Justin Lee, Chris An, Sungbong Nam The 1.2 GW announcement marks the biggest domestic community solar purchase in history, the agreement also includes 20 MWh of energy storage Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells Dalton Factory to announce this historic order made possible in part because of […]
Summit Ridge Energy, 548 Enterprise, and Ecademy Launch Illinois-Based Green Job Training Center
“Sustainability Hub” to train and employ 10,000+ local Illinois residents for solar careers Steve Raeder, CEO of SRE (left), A.J. Patton, Managing Partner and CEO of 548 Developmen (center) and Rob Wallace, President & CEO of Ecademy, and Co-Founder of Power52. Chicago, IL (December 6, 2022)— Community solar owner-operator, Summit Ridge Energy (SRE), announced […]
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Reuters: FEATURE-US cities risk losing out on clean-energy incentives, jobs
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a church on Chicago’s West Side near where he grew up, Marques Jones Jr. is hoping to earn more money and help his family by learning how to install and maintain the solar panels he now sees everywhere he goes. Jones is midway through an inaugural 11-week […]
Chicago Sun Times: Sky’s the limit for West Side training of solar panel technicians
Rob Wallace, chief executive of Ecademy, instructs Traveli Ratcliff on cutting angles while learning how to install solar panels Monday. A new venture hopes to train 10,000 graduates over the next decade in solar panel installation. With the involvement of businesses and organizations, and maybe a boost from providence, a venture to train people in […]
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