In the second part of Solar Power World‘s conversation with Arno Harris, CEO of Recurrent Energy and chairman of SEIA, the industry leader discusses what must happen for the solar industry to be considered a mature member of the U.S. energy mix.

In light of the Senate’s proposal to reduce the investment tax credit for solar, we spoke with Jamie Hahn, co-founder and managing director of Northeastern solar developer Solis Partners (also a Solar Power World Top 250 Contractor). Jamie helped clarify what this reduction would mean for the solar industry and if it’s likely to pass in 2014.

We talked to Arno Harris, Recurrent’s CEO, to get his perspective on what drove the industry in 2013 (including the loosening of financing), and how it feels to have the United States finally competing with with Germany as a world solar leader.

For every megawatt of residential solar power that SolarCity installs in 2014, the company will bring light to a community by donating a solar power system and battery combination to a school without access to electricity, through its new charitable arm, the Give Power Foundation.

In this episode, we hear from James Dumas, a founding principal at Solect, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based solar installer and member of the Solar Power World Top 250 Solar Contractors list.

In this episode, we talked to Rob Threlkeld, renewable energy manager for General Motors. GM joined SEIA in February 2013, and in October 2013 they announced that they will be installing a 1.8 MW on their Toled, Ohio, Transmission Plant.

We spoke with Youness Scally of Everybody Solar, a San Francisco non-profit that works to protect the environment and strengthen communities through solar energy projects. Youness is here to tell us more about the work his organization does, particularly how Everybody Solar is working with a fellow non-profit, Homeboy Industries, to stop gang-violence.

Today, we’re talking to Brad Mattson, CEO of Siva Power.

Today, we’re talking to Gilad Almogy, CEO of Cogenra Solar, which announced last week that it had introduced a ground-mount solar system that installs for 50 cents a watt.

In this episode, we are speaking with Aaron Hall, president of Borrego Solar.