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Solar PV installation workshop
Become a certified solar installer after this 4-day course with David DelVecchio
Course includes:
1. Overview of photovoltaics : PV history, current and emerging technologies, advantages and disadvantages to PV, system components and types of systems
2. Photovoltaic electric principles : electric terminology, basic circuits, series and parallel wiring.
3. The solar resource: solar radiation fundamentals, gathering site data, site analysis
4. Electric load analysis: energy efficiency, refrigeration, lighting, calculating load estimates
5. Photovoltaic modules: pv principles, module characteristics, module performance and environmental conditions and pv mounting options.
6. Batteries: types and operation, specifications, safety, battery wiring, battery sizing.
7. PV controllers: types, features, specifying a controller, controller sizing.
8. Inverters: operating principles, types and features, batteryless grid-tied, stand-alone inverters, stand alone inverter sizing.
9. Photovoltaic system wiring: wire types and conduit, wire sizing, sizing exercises, overcurrent protection and sizing, disconnects, grounding surge suppression.
10. Sizing stand alone PV systems: design penalties, sizing exercise, hybrid systems with generators.
11. Grid-tied PV systems: types and advantages, system sizing and economics, obtaining interconnection agreements, net metering, and sizing.
12. PV and the national electric code
13. Interconnection issues
14. Slideshow of PV installations
Upon completion of this course the students should understand the detailed functionality of PV system components, and all common PV systems from straight water pumping to stand alone battery based systems, and grid tie PV with and without batteries. Students will be able to design and size these systems. They will see what is involved with interconnection to the utility.
This course prepares students to enter work as a competent installer. However, there are a great many National Electric Code issues that cannot be adequately addressed in one week and further training and experience is recommended.
Date: June 2010, TBA
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