There’s been a shakeup in the Hawaii Solar Energy Association’s leadership.

Mark Duda, who had been the president for the past three years, has been voted off the board, completely.

The new board has yet to be seated but its past vice president, Myron Thompson, founder and president of 21st Century Technologies, has assumed the president’s role.

Other board members include Rick Reed, president of Solaray Corp., Gary Ralston, owner of Hawaiian Island Solar, Rolf Christ, president and CEO of R&R Solar Supply, Andrew Yani, principal at Bonterra Solar, Yvette Maskrey, district manager for Honeywell Utility Solutions, Gabriel Chong, special projects manager at Sunetric, and Cully Judd, board member emeritus and founding member of HSEA.

According to Reed, officers won’t be decided until the trade group’s next meeting, which could happen in the next couple of days.

Duda, who is also a principal at RevoluSun, one of the top producing photovoltaic companies in Hawaii, told PBN on Monday that last Thursday night, seven board and executive office members were voted in — not including him.

Duda said he has mixed feelings about the board’s recent decision, saying that the industry has become dramatically better off since he became the president.

“I think I really did a fair job — not giving any sector any advantage,” he said. “I enabled the market to grow by putting the conditions in place.”

Some in the PV industry had complained about having the president of the HSEA being from one of PV companies.

It even went as far as accusing Duda for making decisions in his company’s best interest.

“Anybody that says that, hasn’t paid any attention to what I’ve done over the last three years,” he said. “I did everything I could do to separate those roles.”

Despite being ousted from the HSEA, Duda said he won’t stop advocating for the solar industry.

He expects to focus his attention on the nonprofit, Hawaii PV Coalition.

“It’s kind of dormant, but we will get things sorted out this week,” he said. “It’s available to be conformed to policy needs of today and I’ve already gotten companies wanting to join.”