CUSTOM TRAINING

With Solar Energy International

Solar Energy International offers training discounts for employers to enroll their teams in our existing online courses, or custom instructor-led online training, in-person courses, and practical hands-on workshops to PV designers, installers, and solar business professionals. SEI’s contract training programs are designed to meet the needs of EPCs, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, government, and other businesses involved in the rapidly growing renewable energy and PV markets. SEI’s curriculum and contract training services are also available in Spanish!

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Online Tuition Discounts for Employees & Groups

If your company is looking to provide training to ten or more employees or members, SEI can provide a special pricing program to meet your training needs. SEI’s range of introductory and advanced courses can serve as foundational training for employees new to the solar industry or as advancement and continuing education for existing employees. Once your special pricing program is complete, your employee can simply use your company discount to enroll in online or in-person training that works with their schedule and meets your training goals.

Custom In-person Trainings

SEI provides private trainings at your facility where we develop a custom course based on your needs and send SEI instructors to lead the class. We’ll take care of the curriculum, participant materials and travel arrangements for the instructors. We typically recommend a group of 10-25 for cost effectiveness and most trainings are 3-5 days depending on content.

Hands-on Installation and O&M Trainings

SEI’s experienced instructors lead practical, hands-on trainings at your PV facilities or at SEI’s Lab Facilities in Colorado, Costa Rica and/or Oman.

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Request contract training, special tuition pricing, or SEI instructor-led education at your location. A representative from SEI will contact you within five business days.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Contract training can offer several benefits when compared to our regular classes. With contract training, we can customize the content to meet the needs of your team. Customization allows you to skip the parts of our courses that you don’t need while focusing on the topics that are important to you. Contract training allows your team to ask questions in a setting that will ensure confidentiality since they won’t be in class with potential competitors. Our contract training can also cover topics that aren’t discussed in our regular classes, and they can also cover subjects in more depth. Our instructors come to you for contract training, so you don’t have to pay to have your team travel to SEI.

Contract training cost varies depending on several factors, including length, location, and how much customization the curriculum requires. Short online training can cost a few thousand dollars, whereas full-week in-person classes at your location typically cost around $20,000 – $25,000. In many cases, we can tailor the training to fit your budget.

That depends on how much you want to learn! Typical contract courses are 3-5 days but can be multiple weeks if you are looking for advanced topics or numerous subjects. We can also provide half-day classes either in person or online.

SEI travels all over the world to conduct solar training! We can most likely travel to your location provided there’s classroom space and the required equipment like a projector and internet access. However, if there is a security or logistics concern that could prevent us from traveling to you, we can work with you to find a location that will be suitable for the training.

Absolutely. SEI can modify our existing online classes or create custom online content delivered with a live instructor or as a self-paced on-demand course. With self-passed classes, we can provide an instructor to answer questions through emails, online forums, or by scheduling live office hours.

We can provide training on any photovoltaic-related topic. The most cost-effective training utilizes content from our existing courses. Many companies we’ve worked with combine elements of several SEI classes to meet their specific needs. We can also create custom content based on the topics you’d like to cover using our industry-leading subject matter experts working with our instructional design team.

SEI courses are available in English and Spanish.

Yes, we do. If your team will be taking ten or more courses, we can set up a discount agreement of $100 off any regularly priced class. This discount does not apply to the short form continuing education classes.

SEI is pleased to work with a myriad of companies, universities, and other organizations to provide training worldwide. To reach our broadest audience, we are not looking for exclusive partners or agents at this time. However, we can work with you to offer SEI’s training on a contract basis or discuss other options to work together.

If you are interested in learning more about SEI’s contract training, complete our questionnaire and receive custom-tailored information for your company, school or organization. For further workforce development needs, you can email our Business Development Department at [email protected].

Training Topics

  • PV101: Solar Electric Design and Installation (Grid-Direct)
  • PV202: Advanced PV System Design and the NEC (Grid-Direct)
  • PV207: PVsyst and Helioscope for PV System Production Modeling
  • PV203: PV System Fundamentals (Battery-Based)
  • PV303: Advanced PV Multimode and Microgrid Design (Battery-Based)
  • PV304: Advanced PV Stand-alone System Design (Battery-Based)
  • PV350: Tools and Techniques for Operations and Maintenance (Grid-Direct)

International Training

SEI offers contract trainings all over the world including Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Suriname, Antigua, Barbados, Haiti, Guam, Solomon Islands, India, Israel,  Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Palestine, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Benin, Angola, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

  • To read more about SEI’s Programa Hispano visit This Page
  • To read more about SEI’s Middle East and Africa Program visit This Page
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“SEI was hands down the right choice for up-to-date, practical, and professional training in the world of photovoltaics. I will not be going elsewhere.”

-Brad Sturm