October 2018

Halloween is scary. Kickstarting your career in the clean energy workforce without prior experience doesn’t have to be. Get started in the solar industry today!

Other November class offerings include:

• PVOL202: SOLAR TRAINING – ADVANCED PV SYSTEM DESIGN AND THE NEC (GRID-DIRECT) – ONLINE
• PVOL203: SOLAR TRAINING – PV SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS (BATTERY-BASED) – ONLINE
• PVOL206: SOLAR TRAINING – SOLAR BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL SALES – ONLINE
• PVOL303: SOLAR TRAINING – ADVANCED PV MULTIMODE AND MICROGRID DESIGN (BATTERY-BASED) – ONLINE

Solar has stepped up to the plate as an emerging and necessary technology amid impending and present disaster due to climate change, but so have you. Thank you for taking the initiative to grow your solar training, to improve the lives of others, and to take responsibility for the fate of our collective existence on this planet. Keep working to elevate and encourage the ideas of others, and we will, too.

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Solar Energy International (SEI)’s AmeriCorps VISTAs helped pave the way for Delta County, Colorado to receive a Gold designation from the national SolSmart program for making it faster, easier, and more affordable for homes and businesses to go solar. The initial Bronze designation in 2017, also a VISTA-led effort, recognized Delta County for taking measurable steps to encourage solar energy growth and remove obstacles to solar development. The prestigious Gold designation recognizes further efforts and milestones, including completion of a solar project within the County using the State’s commercial property-assessed clean energy (C-PACE) financing tool and a permitting and inspection training for local municipalities held by Delta County and SEI.

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The Solar Foundation has begun their yearly work with BW Research Partnership to collect data in support of their annual National Solar Jobs Census. The data from this survey is absolutely critical in demonstrating to policymakers and the general public that solar is a major contributor to the broader national economy. In many ways, the industry has never had a more urgent need for this information.

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Ready to geek out with SEI on the NEC? Our very own Rebekah Hren and Brian Mehalic sent us a quick check in from the NFPA 2020 NEC second draft meeting!

“Just wanted to say hello from the NFPA 2020 NEC second draft meeting. We are about halfway through the public comment review and update process for the 2nd draft (really the final draft). If you want to keep up with us as we make changes in REAL TIME (!!)
 you can click NFPA 70 next edition: https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=70&tab=nextedition&fbclid=IwAR2A4tMKy867yMQPDYaKcLgnIDRbFNMF2iWzb1ytkaxO0PY8hBNq-bz6fjc

Scroll just a bit down the page, and you will see a link under 2nd draft that says “View Public Comment”. That’s where we are working, anything in green is a 2nd revision we have just made, which should be very close to the final 2020 language, excepting typos. You can see the whole Code at this link.

You have to have an NFPA account to view, but it is free to sign up. There’s a lot going on. We are here for a week, but it’s really hard to give every section the time it needs to thoroughly discuss. And we are just one of 18 panels – there is a lot of work that goes into the NEC! Note we are NOT going totally in order through 690, so if you see sections that haven’t changed, like 690.12, that doesn’t mean they won’t before the end of the week. Stay tuned!”