Site Assessor Training - Online
This online course offers exercises and activities to demonstrate how to perform a PV site assessment for a home or small business using the PV Site Assessment Report Template.
Topics covered include load profiles and consumption history, energy efficiency and fuel switching opportunities, site-specific shade analysis, array and balance of system location recommendations parameters, and client financing options. Participants will learn how to access and use online tools for assessing the solar resource, perform site-specific PV system sizing, determine energy production of a recommended PV system size, estimate system cost and evaluate existing infrastructure on the site.
An optional four-hour, in-person session is included on Nov. 4, 2023, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Instructor: Michelle Knox.
Prerequisite
Introduction to Solar Photovoltaics or instructor permission.
Registration
Call 217-786-2292 to register. Course code: WST 034-02 FL23, WST 034-03 SP24.
Fall 2023
Open-ended start beginning Aug. 21, 2023. Course must be completed by Nov. 4, 2023.
Spring 2024
Open-ended start beginning Jan. 16, 2024. Course must be completed by June 8, 2024.
Cost
$195
Site Assessor Training - Main Campus
This course offers exercises and activities to demonstrate how to perform a PV site assessment for a home or small business using the PV Site Assessment Report Template.
Topics covered include load profiles and consumption history, energy efficiency and fuel switching opportunities, site-specific shade analysis, array and balance of system location recommendations parameters, and client financing options. Participants will learn how to access and use online tools for assessing the solar resource, perform site-specific PV system sizing, determine energy production of a recommended PV system size, estimate system cost and evaluate existing infrastructure on the site.
Instructor: Michelle Knox.
Prerequisite
Introduction to Solar Photovoltaics or instructor permission.
Registration
Call 217-786-2292 to register. Course code: WST 034-03 FL23, WST 034-04 SP24
Date
May 4, 2024
Time
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Cost
$195