Solar Storage Workshop

This 3-day, 24-hour course covers fundamental principles of battery-based systems including understanding customer needs and utility requirements; specifying and sizing a battery bank, inverters, and charge controllers for battery-based systems; defining system architecture and functionality; battery metering; and understanding the code implications of these systems. The various benefits and challenges of lithium chemistries and lead batteries are analyzed. The course will end with a tour of a commercial PV installation with a battery system.

Prerequisite: Working knowledge of solar PV; currently working in the solar industry; and/or have taken a fundamentals course such as FSPV: Fundamentals of Solar Photovoltaic Design and Installation offered by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center.