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Here’s a roundup of education / training-focused articles from our archives that run the gamut from residential sizing basics to complex utility-scale layouts.

 

commercial solar installers Rethinking career paths: The case for blue collar jobs in solar
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May 19, 2025
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Mayfield Renewables Education Summit set for Oct. 15-16 — what’s new this year?
May 12, 2025
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Solar Energy International rolling out mobile training program with Illumination Solar
January 20, 2025
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Solar Scholarship for engineering students available via A1 SolarStore, Wesco and Setpile
November 20, 2024
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Four takeaways from the Mayfield Renewables Education Summit
October 17, 2024
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S-5! sponsors new scholarship with National Women in Roofing

The metal roof attachment pros at S-5! are sponsoring a new scholarship program to empower women who wish to pursue educational opportunitie...

September 30, 2024
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Mayfield Renewables Education Summit is Oct. 2-3 (here’s discount code...

The Mayfield Renewables Education Summit is next week (Oct. 2-3), and if you haven’t yet registered, we have a promo code for an addit...

September 23, 2024
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Mayfield Renewables appoints new CEO as founder focuses on education,...

Mayfield Renewables has a lot going on. In addition to its solar + storage consulting engineering work, the Mayfield team is building a comp...

August 12, 2024
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How Solar Installers Can Manage Costs and Protect Profits with...

In today’s environment, there are unique challenges facing residential and commercial solar installers. With dedicated efforts to help...

February 27, 2024
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Interplay Learning has an apprenticeship program startup kit for solar...

No skilled trade is more in need of uniform training programs right now than solar. The solar industry currently has a skilled labor shortag...

February 13, 2024
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Solar Letters launches with mission to automate PE stamps for...

There are currently many costly inefficiencies within the solar letter and PE stamp process in the residential solar industry, with most fir...

October 3, 2023
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Stardust Solar’s PV sales course is now NABCEP certified

Congrats to Stardust Solar, a renewable energy installation franchisor based in British Columbia, for getting its new Photovoltaic Technical...

September 5, 2023
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Watch: A closer look at utility-scale solar PV

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), there are about 10,000 solar projects over 1 MW in operation or development acr...

August 24, 2023
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Roofs of hazard: Major safety issues found on majority of...

The following article appears in the Q3 2023 issue of Solar Builder magazine. Subscribe for free (print, digital, or both) right here. The &...

August 9, 2023
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IREC selected to develop clean energy registered apprenticeship network

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship (US-DOL OA) to ser...

August 7, 2023
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SEIA to develop 11 new solar, energy storage ANSI standards

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) was approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop 11 new solar and ...

July 31, 2023
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How to evaluate solar module PAN files (and why it...

This is an article from the Q2 issue of Solar Builder magazine, co-authored by Aaron Hall, president of Anza Renewables and Scott Meredith, ...

July 11, 2023
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Five design tools to jumpstart your C&I solar business

This column was submitted by Aurora Solar. For more C&I design insight, check out this How to qualify a project site in 20 mins using He...

July 10, 2023
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Installing solar on stone-coated steel rooftops | The Pitch

Stone-coated steel roof example. Expanding product lines is a hot topic among solar installers these days, and it’s usually in referen...

June 19, 2023
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Installer perception problems and more resi solar market insight from...

On the latest edition of Solar Builder Buzz, Editor-in-Chief Chris Crowell is joined by Sarah Kim, VP of marketing at Aurora Solar, to discu...

June 7, 2023