New "Quality Fundamentals for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)" course just launched! Check it out!
Ian Woofenden has been consulting, teaching, and leading projects in Central America and the Caribbean for more than a decade, and shares his first-hand experience with seven renewable energy technologies in the "developing world."
Explore the combination of solar energy and battery storage technology; known in the industry as "solar plus storage".
“Heat Pumps 101” is a free course from John Siegenthaler. It takes less than an hour to complete. You’ll learn the very basics of heat pump technology, including heat transfer, refrigeration, and what applications are commonly used.
Let's walk through ten annotated defect photos and what they cost, plus a downloadable one-page inspection cheat sheet and a short quiz.
Free course on the voltage challenges of adding large-scale solar to the utility grid
This course is focused on the NEW 11EER Single and Two-Stage Wall-Mount Air Conditioning and Heat Pump units. However, the material provided in this training applies to All Bard equipment.
String sizing is determining how many PV modules can be connected in series using math. This course gets down to the fundamentals!
Learn the elements of energy storage for residential and commercial clients with this introductory overview of the field. This free course is led by expert Chris LaForge.
Learn how to qualify commercial and industrial solar prospects in this new free short course.
Learn how commercial scale storage will affect the market for commercial clients, some of the major players that are in the current expanding field and see how small utilities will benefit from this scale of storage added to Commercial PV arrays.
In this training we will cover the basics of who Footprint Project is, what equipment we use, and what it might mean to volunteer with us
In this introductory cours, Natural Beekeeping for Beginners, professional beekeeper, herbalist, and owner of Honeybee Herbals, Courtney Cosgriff explains natural beekeeping and why it important to look to the bees for best practices of their care.
This case study presents the Kroska Residential PV installation Seminar that blends two PV system designs (battery free and battery back-up) and accommodates two roof planes and types.
Marc Rosenbaum looks at the potential for battery storage to greatly increase the fraction of a house’s annual load that can be served onsite by solar electricity.
Enroll in this free course and learn the basics of community solar, how PPAs work, the key legal structures used to finance projects, and the basics of financial modeling.
Solar experts Sean White and Bill Brooks record a live webinar as they share some updates in the 2023 NEC for the solar industry
This free course covers how to precisely calculate the dollar savings (aka avoided cost) of a solar project using Energy Toolbase.
Microgrid Institute Director Michael Burr provides a comprehensive introduction to how community microgrids work, what problems they can solve, and how market trends are driving microgrid development.
Solar is becoming more and more appealing as the technology improves and its prices drop. However, because most of the savings aren’t seen immediately, it can be tricky to sell such an investment to customers who don’t have a clear picture of the long...
This thirty-minute lecture describes what it takes to build zero net energy buildings. It provides builders with an honest look at the benefits, challenges, and economics of zero net energy projects.