Making money from the sun has a nice ring to it. Did you know that landowners can reap significant benefits from leasing their land for solar development? Solar farms are more than just environmentally friendly power plants. They can produce long-term passive income with generous lease terms, remain under your and your family’s control, and at the end of the …
As we get ready to join our families and friends in celebrating Thanksgiving this year, I’d like to share some important things that the Inovateus team is grateful for. We’re grateful for completing the biggest solar project in our company’s history and the largest utility-scale solar system in the state of Michigan—the massive 48 MWAC Lapeer solar farm providing solar-sourced …
When you work in an industry you love, there are moments where the culmination of months of hard work comes full circle, moments that make all those long days, extra hours in the office, and many miles on the road worthwhile. Sometimes you get lucky when two of those moments overlap on the same day. Somehow, on November 9, the …
Last weekend, TJ and I joined a few hundred of our solar friends to celebrate the people who began the off-grid homestead environmental movement that grew to become the modern residential solar industry that many of us know and work in today. We traveled to Mendocino County in Northern California to take part in the third and probably final Solar …
This post marks the final installment in the 10-part blog series excerpting my recently published book, Building A Brilliant Tomorrow. Along the way, I hope you’ve enjoyed the discussion of Inovateus’ core values embodied in the acronym PEACE—which stands for peace, engage, ambition, creativity, and esprit de corps—and found some ideas you might be able to apply to your business practices and culture. …
Over the course of the year, the Inovateus team traverses the country to attend some of the biggest solar shows. Luckily, one of those events recently took place in our backyard, as the Windy City hosted a major regional solar trade show of its own— Solar Power International (SPI) Midwest 2017. The location should come as no surprise, considering the …
We’re nearing the end of the blog series excerpting my recently published book, Building a Brilliant Tomorrow, as I delve into the second part of the discussion around the fifth and final of Inovateus’ PEACE core values: esprit de corps, or team spirit. I noted in the previous post the somewhat obvious truth of how critical teamwork is to the success of Inovateus—or pretty …
We continue the blog series excerpting my recently published book, Building a Brilliant Tomorrow, with the first part of the discussion around the fifth and final of Inovateus’ PEACE core values: esprit de corps, or team spirit. When people really work together toward a common goal, there’s a sort of magic that happens. We discovered early on at Inovateus that we would be more …
The blog series excerpting my recently published book, Building a Brilliant Tomorrow, moves forward with a discussion of the fourth of Inovateus’ five PEACE core values: creativity. Inovateus not only has some very talented solar professionals but also counts a number of accomplished musicians within our ranks. I’ve been in bands since I was a kid and even minored in music in …
Earlier this year when the snow was still flying and solar panels were trying their best to soak up the sun, I decided to apply for The Washington Campus, which was having a class session in May of 2017. It is an elective class in the capital for 3 collegiate credit hours, and the purpose is to learn about managing …
The ongoing series of blogs excerpting my recently published book, Building a Brilliant Tomorrow, continues with the conclusion of the discussion of the third of Inovateus’ five PEACE core values: ambition. I see myself as a big-picture person, with some ambitious visions of where Inovateus can go in the future. Admittedly, I’m not the most detail-oriented guy and need my team to help fill …
Don’t call him “Your Honor” or “Mayor Buttigieg,” just a simple “Mayor Pete” or “Pete” will do. I’m talking about Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, a local kid who came back home from Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey and the U.S. Navy to lead our city by the river. Pete and I have known each other since we were …
