End Of An Era. You have probably already seen the news that SEIA CEO, Abby Hopper, will be stepping down at the end of January. I may have been the very first interview that her team put her on 9 years ago, and it wasn’t because I was going to be the easy, pleasant conversation. But that’s who Abby has been over her tenure, having the conversations with a membership and industry that has lots of competing ideas. SEIA is too much this or that and too vocal and too weak, not to mention growing the membership and market as a partner to many of us. She convinced me that I should join the board and help from the inside which I did a few years ago and it’s been a pleasure to do. SEIA will continue to thrive, the staff is strong and oriented on the mission to keep solar as the most cost effective, rapidly deployable energy source. But, we will miss Abby and her leadership.
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Best, Yann