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Brian Grenko, President of VDE Americas on how the July 4 tax credit deadline is shaping the US solar market

Let’ s start with your career history and its evolution to your current role. After starting my renewable energy career at the pioneering solar panel manufacturer AstroPower, which was later acquired by GE, I moved to San Francisco to start up a regional sales office and oversee technical support for Yingli Green Energy( Yingli). As Yingli became the world’ s largest solar panel manufacturer, I oversaw the development of an industryleading research and development lab whose work later became the basis of a successful start-up called Amplify Energy, which focused on the evaluation and improvement of operating solar power generation facilities, before its acquisition by another firm. I then joined VDE Americas in 2016 with the goal of creating an industry leading technical advisory firm advancing the deployment of largescale solar and energy storage projects that are financeable and insurable.

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