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Oct 14
duration 5 Days
tuition $1,595.00

PV301L: Solar Training - Solar Electric Lab Week (Battery-Based)

This five-day lab class is an amazing opportunity to get hands-on experience with a wide range of battery-based PV system components and architectures at SEI’s world-class lab facility in Paonia, Colorado. Working in small groups with instructors who live and breathe battery-based PV, students install, test, and commission numerous PV systems with energy storage that address a wide range of applications. The labs in PV301L consist of stand-alone and multimode PV systems, and include AC and DC coupled equipment. Many experienced solar professionals have never worked with batteries – this is your chance to leap to the front of the pack!

what you will learn

Students who complete the PV301L workshop will be able to:

Determine safe procedures for installing battery-based PV systems, including: wiring combiner boxes, disconnects, power centers, controllers, battery banks, and inverters
Understand fundamental procedures for commissioning and maintaining battery-based PV systems
Perform basic programming and testing of components for specific battery-based applications

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PREREQUISITE COURSES: Before participating in the PV301L course, students MUST complete PV101 or PVOL101, PV203 or PVOL203 OR an equivalent course from another organization, have NABCEP certification, or demonstrate field experience and pass a placement quiz. Please contact [email protected] if you feel you are qualified to skip the prerequisite for PV301L.

For information on SEI’s Solar Professionals Certificate Program please click here. For information on SEI’s workshop and training program policies please click here.

nabcep certification information

Contact Training Hours (shown on Record of Completion): 40 hours

NABCEP Training Hours:

PV Installer Certification Requirements:This course counts for 40 advanced training hours.
PV Technical Sales Certification Requirements: This course counts for 20 hours, which covers the PV Technical Sales JTA.
PV Installer Recertification Requirements: This course counts for the following:
- 6 NEC (Code Based) Hours
- 6 Job Task Analysis Hours
- 6 Non-Technical Hours
PV Technical Sales Recertification Requirements: This course counts for 6 Non-Technical/Other Hours
PV Associate Recertification: 12 training hours
Solar Heating Installer Recertification: This course counts for 6 Non-Technical continuing education hours.

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Paonia, CO

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Paonia is located on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains, at 5,645 ft. in elevation. Along with Hotchkiss and Crawford, Paonia is one of the small towns that make up the North Fork Valley. The North Fork of the Gunnison River flows through Paonia and the valley. On both sides of the valley are higher mesas offering panoramic views of the West Elk Mountains, Ragged Mountains, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and San Juan Mountains.

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40 hours

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Instructors

Jason Lerner
SEI Instructor

Jason started bending wire and conduit in 1991 as an electrician’s apprentice then entered the PV world when moving off grid in 1994. After lots of self-learning and on the job training, he started an electrical contracting company in 1999 that designs and installs off-grid solar electric systems in the Pacific Northwest. From 2001-2012 Jason taught classes for SEI’s satellite classrooms in WA State and Costa Rica and in 2016 he co-founded Remote Energy, a non profit organization bringing solar technical and vocational training to rural populations worldwide. A few battery banks later, his off-grid home, office and electric vehicle continue to be powered from the sun.

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Carol Weis
Instructor

Carol Weis works as a solar electric instructor and consultant in the US and internationally – working on projects in countries such as Haiti, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sudan, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, India, Fiji, Nepal, and Pakistan. She also works part-time developing solar training curriculum for organizations such as We Share Solar, OutBack Power, We Care Solar, Solar Electric Light Fund, and USAID. She is an IREC Certified Master PV Trainer TM, and is certified as a PV Installation Professional with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners, and she has worked as a licensed electrician and solar installer in Colorado. For sixteen years, Carol was a lead member of Solar Energy International’s Photovoltaic technical team creating a world class PV curriculum for a mainly U.S. market, and now brings that same rigor to help create solar training programs in other countries through the world. Carol advocates for women inclusion in the energy sector, and has led technical solar electric courses to all women classrooms since 1999.

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PV301L: Solar Training - Solar Electric Lab Week (Battery-Based)

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nabcep certification information

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Instructors

Jason Lerner

Carol Weis

PV301L: Solar Training - Solar Electric Lab Week (Battery-Based)

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what you will learn

helpful information

nabcep certification information

available sessions

course snapshot

course materials

Instructors

Jason Lerner

Carol Weis

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