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Solar Energy International offers free "Understanding the Solar Business" webinar

Free webinar - Understanding the Solar Business - an Insider's Guide to Success with Jeff Spies - Sept. 28 @ 10 a.m. PST

Join Solar Energy International as solar consultant Jeff Spies covers topics in how to be successful in the solar business and provides a special announcement about the launch of SEI's Solar Business and Technical Sales online course.

Jeff Spies is president of SolarSpies - a solar training and consulting firm. He is also the secretary for the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) - the industry certification ...
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Solar Energy International featured in U.S. Department of Energy training story

Solar Energy International executive director and co-founder Johnny Weiss is featured in a U.S. Department of Energy training story published Sept. 24, 2010, on the Energy Empowers website. Learn about the Rocky Mountain Solar Training Program (RMSTP) in the Western with SEI's partners, Salt Lake Community College and the Utah Solar Energy Association.

Click here to read the story.


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Next steps in your renewable energy and solar training

At Solar Energy International, we often hear from alumni who want to know what training they should take next. We recommend branching out to the various related and relevant training opportunities SEI has to offer.

Do you have previous solar energy training? Have you ever wondered how your solar skills fit into the bigger picture of building energy and design, or even beyond borders in the developing world? Solar Energy International has the answer in our Green Building Design & Construction - Online course, starting Sept. 27. This course shows how ...
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Solar Energy International's Johnny Weiss to speak at AREDAY in Aspen

 

 

 

 


By Noah Davis, Solar In the Schools Coordinator


Solar Energy International is fortunate to have one of the largest renewable energy events taking place this summer in our own backyard. From Aug 19-22, the American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) annual conference, held since 2004 in Aspen, Colorado, plays host to a list of notable speakers including Solar Energy International's executive director, Johnny Weiss, on Aug. 21. Johnny will be part of a Saturday afternoon panel discussion ...
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Celebrating renewable energy in Wisconsin

By April E. Clark
Solar Energy International's Energy Fair Correspondent


CUSTER, Wisconsin — I love renewable energy industry conferences.

As of this weekend's event  — the 21st Midwest Renewable Energy Fair (MREF) in Custer, Wisc. — I am four deep. I met many of my new solar friends (great industry folks I see at all the conferences now) at Solar Power International in Anaheim, Calif, last October.

There were men and women in suits. Booths with espresso. And meats on a stick.

This weekend's Energy Fair is a ...
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Solar Energy International’s New Digs

Rachel Connor, SEI's sustainable building program coordinator, details the organization's newest classroom space for students attending our hands-on Carbondale, Colorado, workshops.  

Carbondale is a distinctive community and I'd like to think it's because Solar Energy International was founded here in 1991. We help add to the character. In this funky mountain town, there is solar everywhere you turn, from the solar farm on the edge of town to nearly all public buildings. We have one of the highest number of straw bale homes per capita of anywhere in the country. ...
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Solar cooking 93 million miles away - and it’s free

SEI's resident solar cooker Matthew Harris loves solar cooking. Here's why:

The sun represents so many things to the planet. Without it we would not survive for very long. It takes only eight minutes for the sun to reach the earth, 93 million miles in just 8 minutes. The amount of solar energy intercepted by the Earth every minute is greater than the amount of energy the world uses in fossil fuels each year. For me the sun represents many things as well, but this time of year it symbolizes the most inspiring thing I like to do with the sun which is to solar cook. Solar cooking has ...
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Welcome to Solar Energy International's new blog!

Digital-age learning theorist George Siemens has said, "Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for — connecting and interacting."

This is the best quote I've found to sum up the goal of Solar Energy International's newest direction in the digital age, our blog. We love to connect with SEI alumni, staff, partners, members, students and the vast sustainability-minded global community from around the world. What better way to reach out to renewable energy advocates globally than via our blog, with links to our social networking avenues, workshop schedule, news ...
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