The Energy Shift

CIBC’s Ines Serrao and James Wright recap key takeaways and hot takes from Infocast Solar and Wind 2026 – covering current trends in the renewable energy sector, priorities for the year and the outlook ahead.

On this episode of The Energy Shift, we're going to take a slightly different tack and not look at a particular technology or sector of the energy transition. Instead, we're going to talk about people and specifically the shifting trends in hiring people during the transition, particularly in recent years across all experience levels.

CIBC hosts, James Wright and Ines Serrao, sit down with Michael Rucker, CEO of Scout Clean Energy, to discuss the evolving renewable energy landscape, focusing on the wind, solar, and storage sectors. The conversation explores challenges such as tariff uncertainties, repowering projects, and the potential impacts of changes to clean energy tax credits, while emphasizing the importance of accelerating renewable energy deployment to meet growing electricity demand.