The International Business Podcast

#76: Solar energy and supply chain traceability With Andy Klump

November 15, 2021 Leonardo Marra Season 3 Episode 76
The International Business Podcast
#76: Solar energy and supply chain traceability With Andy Klump
Show Notes

On this episode Leo interviews Andy Klump. He is a renewable energy executive with 20 years of solar energy, storage, and technology experience with 18 years’ operating in China. He is the founder, owner, and CEO of Clean Energy Associates, a solar energy and storage technical due diligence and engineering services firm with a presence in 13 countries with over 170 professionals and completed solar energy and storage projects in 60+ countries. 

  • Supply chain traceability allows to track products from sources to consumer. Is this vital? 
  • What is the importance of company culture? 


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 Clean Energy Associates (CEA), a solar and storage technical advisory firm, provides quality assurance and independent engineering solutions worldwide. We serve financial institutions, project developers, EPCs, IPPs, and power plant owners. From our base in China, CEA’s quality control engineers travel worldwide to conduct upstream in-factory technical evaluations, including factory audits, production monitoring and pre-shipment product inspections. Our US-based product management and engineering (IE/OE) teams provide support throughout the project life cycle, from upstream supply chain management and supplier benchmarking, to downstream system design, construction, commissioning, performance assessment, re-power and optimization as well as warranty support. We serve the solar and storage industries through our expertise in PV modules, racking, inverters and energy storage systems. Since 2008, CEA has reduced buyers’ risks and improved returns on investments via quality assurance, technical and financial due diligence and engineering services covering more than 90 GW in over 60 countries.

 

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