Brianne Horan

Webinar Recap: How Solar Installers Can Prepare for Third-Party Ownership (TPO)

Residential solar has never been an industry where teams could afford to stand still. Policy changes, incentive shifts, financing changes, permitting requirements, customer expectations, and installation complexity are constantly reshaping how installers operate. Today, one of the clearest examples of that shift is the growing importance of third-party ownership (TPO). But TPO is not just […]

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Operations and Maintenance: A Complete Guide for Field Operations Teams

Most field operations teams still manage monitoring, dispatch, and asset documentation across disconnected systems that compound inefficiencies with every site added to the portfolio. This guide breaks down what O&M actually involves for field operations teams, the maintenance activities that protect system performance, the key components of effective program management, best practices for operating distributed

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The Complete Field Service Dispatch Guide for Field Teams

Getting the right technician to the right job site at the right time is the single biggest management challenge for field service teams. For teams running high-volume, multi-site operations across installations, maintenance, and service, these challenges compound. When dispatching breaks down, the consequences hit fast: missed schedule windows, repeat truck rolls, blown SLA deadlines, and

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Field Service Scheduling: A Complete Guide for Field Teams

Field service scheduling is the process of planning and assigning technicians to on-site jobs, matching each job to a technician with the right skills, location, availability, and parts, inside the time window promised to the customer. Schedulers, dispatchers, and operations managers own the schedule. For solar, wind, battery storage, and EV charging teams, that schedule

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Contract Management for Solar Companies: Complete Guide

Solar projects often fail when critical contract terms don’t translate into day-to-day execution. In this guide, you’ll learn how contract management works in the solar industry, which contract types matter most, the risks solar companies face, and the practical ways to strengthen contract oversight across development, construction, and long-term operations and maintenance (O&M). How Does

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Automating Solar Proposals to Close Deals Faster and Improve Accuracy

Solar companies that still build proposals by hand spend hours on a process their competitors finish in minutes. Manual design, pricing, and document assembly slow the sales cycle at every stage, and each handoff introduces errors that cost deals or compress margins. The solar proposal software market is projected to grow from $1.165 billion in

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Renewable Energy Operations and Maintenance in 2026

Renewable energy portfolios are expanding faster than the teams and systems built to maintain them. As solar, wind, and battery storage capacity grows, operations and maintenance (O&M) programs determine whether these assets deliver reliable performance or fall short of their financial projections. This guide covers O&M management fundamentals, cost benchmarks, technology shifts, and best practices

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Cinnamon Energy: Building a Scalable System for the Future of Solar Financing

Cinnamon Energy is a California-based installer who is taking an innovative approach to one of the biggest shifts in residential solar: the move toward third-party ownership (TPO) and financing-led growth. As market dynamics push installers away from cash deals and toward more complex financing structures, many companies are struggling to keep up with the operational

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