US Solar Institute | Continued Education

PV-202: Solar Sales and Marketing

8 hour course – $295.00 – Register Now | View Upcoming Courses

This one day interactive course workshop will help improve the quality and accuracy of solar sales presentations and build on the solar sales and solar marketing presented in PV-201. It will outline what information solar salespeople should provide customers about solar energy and solar power options based on specific site conditions that determine the quality of a solar system’s design, primarily associated with size and location.

Topics covered include: Code of ethics for solar sales people, Overview of how PV solar systems work and components, Overview and use of the physical tools needed for site analysis, How to conduct a site visit, Solar Economics, Basic overview of system design, Preparing professional, accurate proposals and estimates and most importantly how to find and close solar installations in your market.

PV-203: Tax Credits, Energy Efficient Mortgages and Energy Rating

14 hour course – $395.00 – Register Now | View Upcoming Courses

As part of the 2005 Energy Bill passed by Congress, new tax credits for builders, building owners, design professionals, businesses and homeowners were passed.

To be able to help consumers receive these tax credits the following Tax Credits are presented and calculated: Residential solar PV and solar hot water heating systems (solar thermal collectors), highly efficient commercial buildings credits, improvements to existing homes, high efficient air conditioning systems.

In today’s challenging real estate market realtors, builders and mortgage professionals will gain important differentiating techniques to support your clients by understanding green residential home loans, HUD loans, green financing options and credits, PACE funding .

Design engineers and architects will enjoy this course supported by the US Green Building Council and LEED credits will be discussed. This course will demonstrate the Florida Solar Energy Center’s EnergyGauge® software tools that can help students calculate many tax credits.

PV-204: OSHA Job Site Safety

10 hour course – $295.00 – Register Now | View Upcoming Courses

Our OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry Outreach Training program is OSHA-authorized and helps inject entry-level workers with critical knowledge on a variety of OSHA-regulated safety and health topics. The interactive program covers the basics about what topics fall under OSHA’s umbrella, how OSHA operates to protect both workers and employers, and how you personally can benefit from knowing OSHA’s standards. Students receive an OSHA construction safety 10-hour card upon completion.

PV-205: Estimating, Documentation, Plan Reviewing and Permitting

16 hour course – $595.00 – Register Now | View Upcoming Courses

This highly desirable course designed to help the solar construction professional develop techniques to successfully perform detailed solar estimates from a set of engineered plans or from a design build perspective. In many classes this is done with jobs to be installed in PV-401.

This course is outstanding for code officials, plan reviewers or anyone in the business of solar construction. Florida Solar building code review and solar permit design set preparation is covered to insure the student has an advanced comprehensive understanding of real world solar contracting, estimating and design.

The student is trained on where to obtain support and all the necessary documentation for solar product selections, energy calculations, electrical panel calculations, static and dynamic loading calculations, high wind velocity zone HVWZ considerations, solar specifications, solar and PV details, solar and photovoltaic code items and more required for a solar permit application and plan submission.

A detailed outline of the solar building permit process is explained and practiced complete with mock plan reviewer meetings and discussions with registered engineers and contractors. This valuable course explains the sometime rigorous process of obtaining a permit for construction and how to work with governmental officials while doing the same.