Installation Contractor Education

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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.

 

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Featured Outback Power solar storage
The power shutoff sales pitch: A plan for solar installers selling storage in California’s PSPS zones
December 9, 2019
Featured frost heave in solar ground mounts
What is frost heave and how does it affect ground-mount solar arrays?
November 14, 2019
Featured youtube solar marketing
Solar customers shop on YouTube more than you think — here’s four ways you can capitalize
October 23, 2019
News virtual reality solar training
Interplay Learning to provide virtual reality solar training with Global Sustainable Energy Solutions
July 9, 2019
Featured McCarthy Building
Sustainable Planning: Inside McCarthy Building’s holistic approach to solar development

When a $4.5 billion-a-year employee-owned solar EPC determined how to best maximize local trainee headcounts on projects, the solution not o...

June 4, 2019
News certainteed
CertainTeed, Solar Energy International partner on solar installer training

CertainTeed, a leading North American brand of building materials, is expanding its partnership with Solar Energy International (SEI), a lea...

August 2, 2018
Mounting Guide spf diagram
Upgrading C&I rooftop solar installations with spray polyurethane foam

As we have continued our expansion in the commercial and industrial solar market (which includes commercial, industrial, municipal, universi...

June 25, 2018
Mounting Guide Ecolibrium EcoFoot system
Degrees of Separation: How to mount commercial rooftop PV systems...

On commercial rooftops, design trends are all about maximizing energy density. Module selection is a huge factor there, but so are the layou...

June 19, 2018
News IREC training
Solar site inspection made easy and fun in new IREC...

If you think online training has to be dry and boring, think again, says the independent Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). The gro...

May 21, 2018
News solar online training
This online solar training program looks to speed workforce development

Interplay Learning launched a new solar industry training program that will put training capabilities directly in the hands of trade contrac...

March 21, 2018
News Boviet Logo
Boviet Solar, Spice Solar team up on solar installation vocational...

Boviet Solar USA is collaborating with Spice Solar and the San Jose Conservation Corps and Charter School (SJCC&CS) to help train vocati...

November 29, 2016
News APsystems
Check out this microinverter install training series from APsystems

APsystems just launched a video series aimed at registered, professional solar installers (hey, that’s you!) to support its online tra...

August 3, 2016
News NEXTracker logo
NEXTracker opens solar education center for both novices and PV...

When we visited the NEXTracker headquarters last year, it was clear the company’s big focus was on training and education. Fast forwar...

July 1, 2016
News SolarWorld
SolarWorld forms training partnership with SEI (includes coursework discounts)

SolarWorld, an American manufacturer of crystalline-silicon solar technology, launched a training partnership with renewable-energy school S...

June 3, 2016
News Department of Energy solar funding
Department of Energy grows Solar Ready Vets, awards $10M to...

The Energy Department announced five additional military bases will join Solar Ready Vets, a solar jobs training program that prepares servi...

May 18, 2016
News solar ready vets
First U.S. veterans complete Solar Ready Vets training program

As part of the solar industry’s job report, SEIA always mentions the number of U.S. veterans the industry plans to employ. We reported...

March 30, 2016
Installation Contractor Education Fronius
Fronius hosting in-depth training at Solar Power PV Conference in...

For anyone heading to Boston for the Solar Power PV Conference & Expo, clear your schedule after lunch on Feb. 25 because Emmitt Muckles...

February 22, 2016
Installation Contractor Education SunLink GeoPro training
WATCH: Advice for installing on a challenging solar site

A big challenge for solar going forward, as the industry soars, is accommodating projects that just a few years ago would not have been cons...

January 28, 2016
Installation Contractor Education solar military training
N.Y. plans to train Fort Drum military personnel in solar...

One number that is always mentioned in the middle of stats concerning the solar boom, but is maybe glossed over, is the amount of U.S. veter...

January 8, 2016