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Wednesday, 08 September 2010, 9:00am - 4:30pm
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Our objective in this course is to provide the basic vocabulary, technical, and economic details necessary to understand and evaluate grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) projects from a project manager's and/or owner's perspective. In this introductory course, Pete Shoemaker, Renewables Program Coordinator for the Pacific Energy Center, will provide an overview of the fundamentals of solar electric systems, technically known as photovoltaics. He will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various PV technologies (monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin-film), including module efficiencies and their implications on the space requirements of a project.
Pete will provide an overview of criteria for selecting a solar site, PV installation options, and PV system costs and incentives (state and federal). Through project examples, he will present PV installation options for residential and nonresidential projects for systems ranging in size from less than 30 kilowatts (kW) to over 1 megawatt (MW), including roof mounted, ground mounted, building integrated, and PV as public art.
Please note this class is designed as an introductory class for anyone interested in understanding the basic concepts of PV project evaluation. It is not a hands-on installation class or a PV design/engineering class.
Click here for more information and to register.
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Location : Stockton-ETC |
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