
Dona McClain’s first day at the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) was in January 1984. She will retire at the end of this month.
This year, we are fortunate to have Dr. Chuck Kutscher of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as the chair of World Renewable Energy Forum 2012. He also writes a column for SOLAR TODAY titled “Tackling Climate Change.” Dr. Kutscher had the opportunity in 2011 to school the Colorado State Legislature in climate science. We’re pleased [...]

During the huge windstorm in Boulder early this week (peak wind: 93 mph!), Comcast experienced a number of outages, and the ASES website was down sporadically over a couple of days. A number of members tell us they were unable to submit Award and ASES Fellow nominations, or even view the website. Accordingly, we’re extending [...]

We received many outstanding nominations for the 2012 Annual ASES Awards. We pleased to see so many talented and passionate educators, innovators and advocates who are having a big impact in the renewable energy field. We’re pleased to announce the following 2012 honorees: 2012 CHARLES GREELEY ABBOT AWARD William Spratley, for his dedication to education [...]