Are you looking forward to start your career in the photovoltaic energy field? Are you looking forward to learn more about its main details and parameters? Then you are making a wonderful decision! The solar industry is growing immensely and more and more skilled people are being needed to cover the demand. This is a great opportunity to be a part of the energy transition and to join the path towards a greener and more sustainable future.

This course gives you all the fundamentals necessary to understand how a photovoltaic system works, its main components and parameters. Here you will learn what is necessary to have a photovoltaic system running and also design a system with the data and necessary information. Also you will easily comprehend the main technical definitions and understand their importance.

I work as a PV Project Engineer in Germany and I have several years of experience, therefore I know what are the necessary and applicable concepts and which is the essential information to work on residential to utility-scale projects. I am now taking you on board to lean about this amazing field and I will be ready and open to all the questions that you may have. I will also be updating this course according to your requirements and desire to learn.

You don´t need any previous knowledge in the field, here we go through the main basics so that you can easily understand it.

You will get a full understanding about the basics and fundamentals of photovoltaic systems. The course is composed as follows,

• Main components of photovoltaic systems:

  • PV Modules

  • Junction boxes

  • Combiner boxes

  • PV cables and connectors

  • Mounting systems

  • Inverters

  • AC & DC Isolators

  • Batteries & Charge controllers

  • Generation meters

• Types of photovoltaic systems

  • On-Grid

  • Off-Grid

  • On-Grid with a battery back-up

• Main parameters of photovoltaic systems

  • I-V Curve

  • PV Panel efficiency

  • Short-circuit current

  • Open-circuit voltage

  • Maximum power point

  • Standard test conditions

  • Concept of kW-peak

  • Reading a data-sheet

• Designing a photovoltaic system

  • Location and weather data definition

  • Electricity consumption estimation

  • Defining system size