Course Description: This 3-day 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.

Prerequisites: Completion of NCCETC’s FSPV course or a comparable fundamentals course or working knowledge of solar PV (i.e. currently working in the solar industry) is highly recommended before registering for this course.

Course Cost: $799

Payment plans are available. Registration fee includes lunch and parking each day of the course, and the course notebook.