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PV201LW: Women`s Solar Electric Lab Week (Grid-Direct) Training

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With female-only instructors and participants, this hands-on course offers women a uniquely supportive learning environment to build their solar knowledge foundation. This course offers the same curriculum as SEI’s co-ed PV201L, but is intended to further encourage participants to get ALL those solar questions answered and offer networking opportunities with each other and existing women in the solar industry.

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This solar training workshop offers five days of hands-on installation practice with grid-direct systems. By working in small groups, students will put what they’ve learned in PV101 to the test. Students will fully install and commission a wide variety of system types before testing the system, then de-commissioning and breaking down. Students rotate between a commercial ballasted roof, two steep roofs, a ground-mount, and a pole-mount system that contain a variety of inverters, racking hardware and mounting methods. Students will learn fall protection best practices and different harness set-ups. They will learn lockout/tagout procedures to create a safe working environment and use an assortment of meters to test systems.

PREREQUISITE COURSES: Before participating in the PV201LW course, students MUST complete PV101 or PVOL101 OR an equivalent course from another organization, have NABCEP certification, or demonstrate field experience and pass a placement quiz.

What you will learn

Students who complete the PV201L workshop will be able to:

  • Perform power and energy calculations
  • Obtain and apply specifications for PV modules and determine their performance given various environmental and operating conditions
  • Safely operate various types of digital multimeters
  • Diagram and determine the power, current, and voltage characteristics of PV modules in different series and parallel configurations
  • Install various mounting systems (ground, pole, roof, and trackers).
  • Decipher balance-of-system equipment specification sheets to determine the critical information needed for system design
  • Install a residential grid-direct system including the array, inverter, circuit conductors, and overcurrent protection
  • Safely operate equipment grounding, system grounding, and components and conductors used for grounding
  • Work with wires and components on schematics of residential grid-direct systems: disconnects, inverter, equipment grounding conductors, ungrounded conductors, grounded conductors, the grounding electrode(s), and the AC and DC system grounds
  • Identify potential safety hazards and demonstrate the proper use of personal protective equipment for working on grid-direct PV systems
  • List the order of installation, commissioning, and decommissioning of a grid-direct PV system

Note: This class is a great complement to PV301L, the Solar Electric Lab Week (Battery-Based).