By Jake Edie

This article was originally published in Renewable Energy World.

CEA’s Vice President of Marketing, Jake Edie, recently wrote an article in Renewable Energy World about CEA’s most surprising findings in clean energy and what developers and buyers will be watching most closely as 2024 unfolds.

Aggressive policies in the U.S. and Europe are starting to have an impact on clean energy supply chains, even as on-site quality and safety audits reveal a shocking increase in solar panel defects.

Such defects, coupled with a surprising level of safety issues, should raise red flags for the entire industry.

In the past year, Clean Energy Associates (CEA) supported dozens of supply agreement negotiations, performed in-factory quality assurance oversight at over 100 solar and energy storage factories, executed hundreds of on-site quality and safety audits, and advised many of the largest clean energy developers and investors on their most strategic questions…

Read the full Renewable Energy World article - The biggest clean energy surprises in 2023 and what they mean for 2024

Jake Edie is Vice President, Marketing at Clean Energy Associates, and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.