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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installers

From the physics of a solar cell to the day the utility approves the system. Twelve lessons, one per chapter of the book, each explained at three levels (Good, Better and Best) with a bench that answers back, tasks to try and a printable card. Free, no account, nothing to install.

Step one · Read

The chapter, broken into the separate ideas you will be asked to use. Read it, or have it read to you.

Step two · Work

A bench you can change (bend a current-voltage curve, check fall clearance, size a system from a real roof) that answers the way the chapter does, with new numbers each time.

Step three · Prove

A new situation every attempt. Miss one and you are told why that choice fails, and sent back to the exact idea it was testing.

Your progress is kept on your own device. Nothing is transmitted and nobody is asked who you are. This class teaches how solar installation works; it is not a licence. Electrical and structural work must follow your local code, the equipment instructions and your authority having jurisdiction.

The twelve lessons

One per chapter, in the book's order. All twelve are open.

    The Certificate of Comprehension

    Working the lessons is practice, and practice does not earn a certificate. The certificate comes from a separate exam that is graded on our server, so no answer key ever reaches your browser and no score can be reported by the student.

    Thirty-six questions, three from each of the twelve lessons; you need 80% to pass. A pass prints a serial-numbered certificate with a link anyone can use to verify it. It says plainly that it records comprehension of the book, and that it is not a trade licence, an industry credential, or a qualification issued by any authority.

    Sit the exam

    Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installers, cover

    The book behind the class

    Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installers was written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation. Published by Global Sovereign University Press. Read the whole book free, or listen to it, on the reader page. The class is free. The book is how the Foundation pays for it.

    Buy a copy — it funds a free seat

    Global Sovereign University is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and book sales are its only income. A purchase is not a tax-deductible donation.

    Accreditation notice: Global Sovereign University is not an accredited institution and does not grant degrees, academic credit, licenses, or industry credentials. Learners who pass GSU's online exams earn GSU certificates of comprehension.