Practical tools, checklists, guides, templates, and reference materials for renewable energy professionals
Use them to prepare projects, organize your work, strengthen your process, and better understand how the pieces of a project fit together.
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Practical resources for the decisions, documents, and challenges renewable energy professionals encounter every day. Use them on their own, share them with your team, or pair them with Energy Academy training to go deeper.
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Keep important steps, requirements, and deliverables from falling through the cracks.
Start with a practical framework instead of rebuilding the same spreadsheet, tracker, or process from scratch.
Quickly understand contracts, project structures, terminology, processes, and common industry considerations.
Test your judgment, work through project scenarios, and apply concepts in a more hands-on way.
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Find companies supporting renewable energy projects across development, engineering, construction, equipment, finance, legal, software, and more.
Browse by service, technology, project type, or geography to find the right partner for your project.
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Contractors and builders supporting project execution from mobilization through commissioning.
Electrical, civil, structural, geotechnical, and interconnection engineering services.
Modules, inverters, racking, BOS components, and procurement support.
Battery systems, integrators, controls, and storage technology providers.
Design, modeling, asset management, monitoring, CRM, and workflow tools.
Lenders, tax equity providers, investors, and project finance advisors.
Law firms and specialists supporting contracts, land, permitting, finance, and transactions.
O&M providers, asset managers, monitoring platforms, and field-service partners.
Explore free courses and lessons that help you understand the renewable energy project lifecycle—from origination and development through finance, construction, and operations.
Learn how a project moves from raw land to notice to proceed, covering site qualification, site control, permitting, interconnection and construction readiness.
Understand leases, easements and option agreements, plus the title work and property rights that decide whether a site can actually be built.
Follow a project through the interconnection queue: feasibility and system impact studies, upgrade costs, and the timing risks that reshape a schedule.
Work through the engineering decisions behind a solar plant, from array layout and equipment selection to electrical design and constructability review.
Design for existing buildings: structural loading, roof condition and attachment, fire code setbacks, and the tradeoffs that shape a rooftop array.
Examine the technical side of connecting to the grid, including protection requirements, metering, and the studies utilities run before approval.
See how a solar project gets built, from mobilization and civil work through racking, module installation, electrical work, and commissioning.
Plan the work and run the site: schedules, crews, submittals, inspections, and the field decisions that keep a build on time.
Break down the contract that governs construction, including scope, milestones, liquidated damages, warranties, and how risk is allocated.
Understand how solar projects get funded, covering capital structure, tax equity, debt sizing, and what lenders and investors look for.
Map where the money goes and where it comes from: development and EPC costs, energy revenue, incentives, and operating expenses.
Learn the metrics used to judge a project, how each is calculated, and where they mislead if the underlying assumptions are weak.
Get oriented in the contracts and legal structures behind a renewable project, and learn where deals most often run into trouble.
Review the agreements that secure land rights, what each one obligates, and the diligence that protects a project before capital is committed.
Work through PPA structure and the terms that drive value: pricing, term, delivery obligations, credit support, and termination.
Learn how deals are sourced and shaped, from identifying offtakers and sites to qualifying the opportunities worth real development spend.
Understand what an offtaker actually cares about and how PPA terms get negotiated from the origination side of the table.
Explore rooftop and land deals with property owners, including lease economics, tenant considerations, and what makes a site attractive.
Understand how electricity is bought, sold and dispatched, and how market design shapes the value a renewable project can capture.
Cover the technologies, policy drivers and economics behind the energy transition, and how renewables fit into the wider power system.
Compare regulated and deregulated markets, ISO and RTO roles, and the tariff structures that determine what a project is paid.
Learn what it takes to run an operating portfolio, covering performance, contracts, compliance and reporting across the asset lifecycle.
Track production against expectation, investigate underperformance, and produce the reporting that owners and lenders require.
Manage the O&M relationship: scope and service levels, availability guarantees, warranty claims, and vendor performance.
Curated guides, databases, calculators, reports, and reference materials from trusted organizations across the renewable energy industry.
Use these resources to answer questions, validate assumptions, and go deeper on the topics that matter to your work.
Put your knowledge to work with short, real-world renewable energy scenarios designed to test judgment, reinforce concepts, and make learning more practical.
Twenty-four project assumptions. Eight are wrong. You get eight flags to spend.
Test your ability to spot the assumptions that can make or break a renewable energy project.
Twenty negotiating moments from real power purchase agreement discussions. Pick the response a seasoned originator would make.
Field decisions from real construction sites. Choose what you would do, then see how your call compares.
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