Courses

Get an introduction to electric utility distribution systems, with figures and photos that explain key concepts.

A free introduction to utility-scale solar design. Developed in partnership with PVcase.

Free solar installation course from IronRidge. Completing this course gets you halfway to your IronRidge Solar PV Installation Certification.

In this free course, Dr. James Rand discusses the 5 things you should know about silicon PV panels.

Free course on the voltage challenges of adding large-scale solar to the utility grid

Join HeatSpring instructor, Brittany Heller, and real people working across solar to learn about the various career opportunities in this rapidly growing industry.

This FREE one-hour course provides a high-level introduction to the feasibility study process -- how we build financial and resiliency models and why preliminary analysis is a crucial step for battery-based systems.

Everyone in the construction industry could perform better if they learned how to better communicate. This course offers a framework and place to start.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how to navigate the complex world of transmission interconnection queues and get your generating project connected faster

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.

This free course provides solar and energy storage developers with actionable short- and long-term steps to fully capitalize on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022.

Learn how to qualify commercial and industrial solar prospects in this new free short course.

What good is a “Net-Zero” building if just the act of making it dumps a huge load of CO2 into the air? This course is more of an introduction to low carbon building.

This free course covers how to precisely calculate the dollar savings (aka avoided cost) of a solar project using Energy Toolbase.

Learn the steps and design choices that will enable a new construction project to supply 100% of its load through renewables. Together we will explore how suite conditions will affect the cost and production of going solar (“Solar Right”).

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.