I had the exciting opportunity to attend this year’s MIT Energy Conference, which focuses on transformational technologies in the energy industry, alongside my thesis partner, Austin Fry. Austin and myself are graduate students in the ESTEEM program at Notre Dame, and are working with Inovateus Solar as part of our thesis project to create a fund that invests in renewable …
I recently had the opportunity to return to the Republic of Panama to participate in the 2nd year of The Nature of Business, a Geoversity executive program on January 30th through February 4th with an amazing group. Before the program began, I spent a long weekend in the Mamoni Valley Preserve in the jungles of Panama northeast of Panama City. …
MiEIBC Solar 101 Luncheon connects Michigan lawmakers with solar industry Michigan, a state perhaps best-known for its auto manufacturing, has recently garnered significant attention for its attractiveness to the solar industry. Two of Inovateus’ flagship projects are in Michigan; our 250-acre solar farm for DTE and the Spartan 1 solar carport project for Michigan State University (the largest carport in …
With the holiday season upon us and the new year just around the corner, I’d like to reflect on some of the highlights for Inovateus Solar in 2017. Certainly, completing the 58MWDC Lapeer, Michigan, solar farms for DTE Energy was the event of the year for us, as it is the largest solar construction project we’ve managed to date. Not …
Did you know that almost 5500 K-12 schools have gone solar in the U.S.? And that nearly two-thirds of those schools have seen their solar installed just over the last five years? Or that there’s “tremendous untapped potential among the majority of our schools still without solar” to go solar? These facts and much more are part of the findings …
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 …
