Introduction to Rooftop Solar (Online)
6 hours · $109.95
Description
This PE license renewal continuing education course has been specifically written for professional engineers or other building professionals to learn the fundamentals of solar electric design, with an emphasis on rooftop solar. The PE will learn site analysis, material selection, budgets, and pro tips. Pay careful attention and the engineer will learn the steps needed to generate project permit documentation, specialty material lists including supply chain navigation, and even which general items might be bought at a local electrical supply store. Register for this PDH Now course today and start earning the PE continuing education credits you need.
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Renewable energy in general, and solar in particular is an expanding industry, one which will substantially change our power grid, and I hope that you too will decide to get involved!
As we talk about solar, the most important thing to keep in the back of the professional engineer's mind is that the value of solar power has less to do with how much sunlight is available where you plan to locate an array and more to do with how much that electricity is worth. For example, the desert in the southwest United States gets great sunlight while the Northeast gets comparatively little.
Some professional engineers may think that more solar arrays would exist in very sunny places. Not so. Places like Germany, and the Northeast of the United States have far more solar arrays than what you will find in a desert, because solar is more valuable where the price of electricity is very expensive.
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the Professional Engineer will be able to:
- PVWatts solar performance estimation and detail
- Molecular fundaments as related to product warranty
- Remote site analysis techniques using Google Earth imagery
- Equipment selection overview including specification sheet details
- Roofing structural and fire code
- Different rooftop and ground mounting approaches
- Supply chain discussion as related to the design process
- Compare and contrast different styles of inverters and racking
- Specialty balance-of-system material items
- Residential project budgets
- Interconnection strategy
- Circuit layouts
- Simple payback including tax credit and depreciation details
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