Courses

Rigorous, hands-on business training for solar professionals. Learn all of the skills to finance the commercial solar projects in your pipeline. Includes Excel modeling, legal documents, individual feedback, and monthly conference calls.

This is a unique and intensive hands-on course on modeling distributed generation solar PV projects. The course includes sample models of an unstructured income statement, a partnership flip, and a sale-leaseback.

The structure of commercial electric tariffs can have drastic effects on a solar PV system's economics. This course dives into the different types of structures and includes real-world case studies to demonstrate the impacts on solar systems.

Gross margin is the one (and often) only metric to give you a sense of how you are doing. Using this simple yet powerful excel tool will revolutionize how you and your company think.

This course is designed to help professionals in the traditional energy sector make the transition to selling, delivering, and managing solar power assets. You'll learn the business and finance side of solar, plus the technical and engineering side.

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

Get tax benefits and do good for the world. This is a conversation with existing owner/investors on how they got started, what they look for in a project, common pitfalls, benefits and disadvantages.

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.

Learn how nonprofits can navigate going solar after the passage of OB3.

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a method of providing 100% long-term, fixed-rate financing for energy efficiency, resiliency, water conservation and sustainability upgrades. This is a quick, free introduction to the program.

Learn all about Direct Pay, a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that makes solar much more accessible for nonprofits, from the experts at CollectiveSun.

Important findings from a rigorous, months-long analysis where we studied the economics of solar + storage projects on every C&I (commercial and industrial) utility rate tariff in California’s Investor-Owned Utility (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E) territories.

In this webinar, co-hosted by UtilityAPI & Energy Toolbase. We will review and demonstrate the value of Green Button Data (aka interval meter data) for use in Distributed Energy Resource project development activities.

This lecture demonstrates how to accurately, objectively, and transparently model the economics for any type of behind-the-meter (BTM) energy storage project.

"Presenting Your Best: Marketing Campaigns and Creative Content" is focused on campaign priorities and creative development for effective solar marketing.

This free course gives an overview of the tax incentive called the Energy Community Bonus Adder, created and still available from the Inflation Reduction Act.

This course will explore in depth how to model solar projects on Time-of-use (TOU) rates, and how they effect the 'value of solar' calculation.

Join solar experts Keith Cronin and Chris Lord in their discussion of selling solar pv to non-profits and important things to know before pitching non-profit clients.

This free course gives an overview of the tax incentive called the Low Income Communities Bonus Adder, created and still available from the Inflation Reduction Act.