Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Renewable Energy (Solar and Wind)

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Renewable Energy (Solar and Wind) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • solar
  • solar pv
  • wind
  • renewable energy
  • mw
  • mwp
  • inverter
  • module
  • string
  • epc
  • plant performance
  • performance ratio
  • cuf
  • o&m
  • grid
  • net metering
  • ppa
  • power purchase agreement
  • seci
  • tender
  • commissioning
  • scada
  • rooftop solar
  • ground mounted
  • bess
  • energy storage
  • yield
  • transmission

The eight questions for Renewable Energy (Solar and Wind)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.What capacity, in MW or MWp, have you built, commissioned or operated?
  2. 2.What performance ratio, CUF, availability or generation do you hold or improve?
  3. 3.How many projects, sites or plants have you handled, and in which states?
  4. 4.Which equipment, systems and software do you work with daily?
  5. 5.What project value, PPA or tender have you delivered or won?
  6. 6.How many technicians, contractors or O&M staff do you supervise?
  7. 7.What cost, downtime or generation loss did you reduce, and by how much?
  8. 8.How many commissionings, grid connections or handovers have you completed?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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