Kelly Pickerel

Kelly Pickerel is editor in chief of Solar Power World, a solar industry publication. Kelly has been involved with publishing in the solar industry since 2011 when she started as the founding editor of Solar Builder, a trade magazine. She joined the Solar Power World staff in 2014, and her areas of focus include solar panel manufacturing, energy storage and the development of Solar Power World’s annual Top Solar Contractors List. During Kelly’s tenure as editor in chief of Solar Power World, the publication has been honored as one of six finalists in the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ national Magazine of the Year award. She also is a Trade Association Business Publications International award winner for her reporting on the U.S. solar polysilicon market. Kelly graduated from Kent State University with a degree in magazine journalism and lives in Ohio.