As an experienced operations manager in the solar industry, odds are you’re familiar with the term soft costs – all of the costs associated with the project on top of the hardware components of the PV, EV or Battery system. Even if or not you’re familiar with the term, we’d venture a guess that you’re more than […]
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The solar industry, along with the rest of the US workforce, is undergoing rapid changes as Generation X reaches retirement age and an increasing number of millennials enter the solar workforce. That’s left solar managers across the industry looking at how their companies should capture and retain knowledge, and how to recruit from an emerging
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Scoop and Enlight today announced that Enlight has selected the Scoop® technology platform for work management and automation to streamline its large and growing solar installation and maintenance operations.  “I’m delighted to say Enlight who is a market leader has decided to join our rapidly growing family of clients. I see this decision as a significant vote of
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Solar panels today typically are guaranteed to work at least 80% of their rated power for 20 to 30 years–but what happens once their efficient solar power producing lives come to an end, and is solar panel recycling viable? These questions are especially important as the wave of solar panels that have been installed over
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We’re all noticing the changing landscape. Solar energy has truly come of age after decades of naysayers dismissing it as a niche solution tinged with a bit of crazy; Solar—from residential to utility scale—is now a core strategic component of the power generation mix in the world’s biggest and most robust economies. Today we’re looking
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The growth in solar generation is a common headline in the energy news of most of the world’s biggest economies. What was for decades a niche industry is now found at the center of energy strategy and trade negotiations at the highest levels of international affairs. But while the most industrialized nations build out thousands
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The Scoop team is comprised of amazing and passionate people who share a love of advanced technology, renewable energy, and making a positive impact on the world. This week we’re talking to our co-founder and CEO, Babak Sardary, about Scoop’s origins, his philosophy on what makes great field software, and what the future holds for machine
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The Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC), a federal incentive program that encourages consumers and companies to install solar, presided over a historic period of growth in the solar industry. Under the Solar ITC, solar power capacity in the US grew by over 10,000% in a period of 13 years. But in 2020, the Solar ITC
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