In this podcast, Clean Energy Associates’ CEO, Andy Klump, joins Currents to discuss trends in solar and energy storage quality assurance and independent engineering work globally since COVID-19 became a pandemic.

Topics Discussed Include:

• Upstream quality assurance and downstream technical advisory in the solar and energy storage industries

• The effects of tariffs placed by the Trump administration

• The three primary ways of coping with the tariffs (having multiple sources of supply, flight to quality and understanding which suppliers have advanced technology)

• Observations of how manufacturing is now being diversified outside China, and how most of the product coming into the United States is manufactured in either Southeast Asia or Korea

• The impact of the rise in force majeure claims and how it is impacting the industry

• How COVID-19 has disrupted the operations of on-field inspectors

• The costs and broader technological trends in energy storage