The Definite Solar Energy Course - 2024

Take your SOLAR ENERGY KNOWLEDGE to the next level - SOLAR ENERGY Certificate of completion 2024

What you'll learn

SOLAR Photo-Voltaic DESIGNS

THE SOLAR PV SYSTEM AND HOW DOES IT WORK

UNDERSTANDING PHOTOVOLTAICS (SOLAR CELLS)

ENERGY NEEDS OF THE PROPERTY VS SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION

PEAK SUN HOURS AND ITS’ IMPORTANCE

SIZING THE SOLAR PV SYSTEM

DC & AC ELECTRICITY (CHARACTERISTICS AND CIRCUITS)

I-V CURVE OF SOLAR PANELS

OVERVIEW OF THE GRID

INTERCONNECTION WITH THE GRID

CLIMATOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS OF THE LOCATION OF INTEREST

VOLTAGE CORRECTIONS DUE TO TEMPERATURE (MUST DO!)

SELECT THE CORRECT INVERTER

OVERVIEW OF MATCHING THE SOLAR ARRAY AND INVERTER CALCULATIONS

MATCHING THE ARRAY AND INVERTER: VOLTAGE/CURRENT/POWER

MULTI-MPPT INVERTERS

STRINGING CONFIGURATION OF THE ARRAY/NUMBER OF PANELS PER STRING

SYSTEM PROTECTION (Breakers/Isolators/AC/DC)

SYSTEM EFFICIENCIES AND ENERGY YIELDS

CABLING SIZING

Requirements

No specific requirements

Download Excel worksheets to work on

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Description

Welcome the The definite Solar Energy course 2024!ONSITE EXPERIENCES.In this course I bring all of my knowledge in more than 10 years of experience in the renewable energy industry for you to enjoy; along with 5 years of experience as an online instructor.  As soon as you enroll it will all be about learning, getting yourself to the next level in knowledge on Solar PV Energy and having fun the process.I have purposefully put together a well organized and step by step process for you to become an amazing Solar Designer, with real insights on the renewable energy market and lots of valuable content for you to download anywhere you want to go.  A few take-aways from this course:4+ hours of concise training on how to engineer and design your own solar PV systemLive recording of a real Solar PV installation for Commercial purposes (no other course has this!)Dozens of external resources to download CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETIONImmediately belong to a community of dozens of thousands of students who enrolled into any of my coursesStep-by-step process on Engineering and DesignSpreadSheets for calcs, Free Solar Websites and links to help you in your designQuizzes to track your progressDirect access to me for any questions you may have.Never-ending updates to the courseYou are most welcome to ask me any questions before or after enrolling into the course - I will be very happy to take them and work with you.See you inside and as I told my already 12,000 students:LET'S GO!!!Leandro CarusoYour instructor

Overview

Section 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

Lecture 1 Welcome Video

Lecture 2 Course Overview

Lecture 3 Solar Energy demystified in 5 mins!

Section 2: Revising the Basics (Solar 101)

Lecture 4 Quick disclosure! (revising the basics)

Lecture 5 The Solar PV System and how does it work

Lecture 6 Understanding Photovoltaics (Solar Cells)

Lecture 7 Energy Needs of the property vs Solar Energy Production

Lecture 8 Peak Sun Hours and its’ importance

Lecture 9 Basic sizing the Solar PV system

Section 3: Electricity Principles

Lecture 10 DC Electricity

Lecture 11 AC Electricity (connecting to the grid)

Lecture 12 Interconnections with the Grid (how does the PV system connects onto the Grid)

Section 4: Engineering of Solar Energy system (from A-Z)

Lecture 13 Overview of a reliable Solar Design

Lecture 14 Selection of the correct inverter

Lecture 15 Matching the Array and Inverter: VOLTAGE

Lecture 16 Matching the Array and Inverter: CURRENT

Lecture 17 Matching the Array and Inverter: POWER

Lecture 18 Climatologic considerations for your Solar Design

Lecture 19 Voltage corrections due to Temperature (MUST DO!)

Lecture 20 Multi-MPPT Inverters

Lecture 21 Stringing configuration of the Array

Lecture 22 COMPLETE EXAMPLE

Section 5: System protection

Lecture 23 A short break and recognition before we continue

Lecture 24 System protection introduction

Lecture 25 Overview of System protection - DC PROTECTION

Lecture 26 Sizing of DC isolators (Formulas!)

Lecture 27 DC protection PRACTICAL EXAMPLE

Lecture 28 AC Breaker protection

Lecture 29 Earthing your solar system

Lecture 30 FULL EXAMPLE of system protection

Section 6: CABLE SIZING

Lecture 31 Introduction and main concepts

Lecture 32 Current Carrying Capacity of cables (CCC)

Lecture 33 Voltage Drops in Cables (VD)

Lecture 34 Cable Routes and Lengths

Lecture 35 DC and AC cable size calcs

Section 7: SYSTEM EFFICIENCY AND YIELD

Lecture 36 Energy Yield - Introduction!

Lecture 37 Sources of efficiency loss

Lecture 38 Energy Yield - Bringing things together

Lecture 39 Performance Ratio

Section 8: STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Lecture 40 How to conduct a Structural Assessment for the roof

Section 9: CASE STUDY - We're going ONSITE 99kW PV system

Lecture 41 System details (Roof Layout)

Lecture 42 System details (Single Line Diagram)

Lecture 43 Structural Engineering Report

Lecture 44 Roof Safety Setup

Lecture 45 Racking installation

Lecture 46 Paneling handling technique (how to carry panels to avoid injury)

Lecture 47 DC Cable Trays

Lecture 48 DC rooftop Isolators

Lecture 49 System Earthing

Lecture 50 Inverter station installation

Lecture 51 Solar AC Breaker installation into MainServiceBoard

Lecture 52 Final panels layout

Section 10: BONUS SECTION

Lecture 53 Bonus Lecture

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