Colorado Gives Day: Help us give back to our home state!

An International Renewable Energy Leader, and the Rural Valley it Calls Home

Solar Energy International (SEI) believes in a world powered by renewable energy, so it is only fitting that our mission begins at our homebase in Delta County, and in the surrounding communities in Colorado. Students who have visited SEI’s campus in Paonia know how special it is: the snow-capped mountains, the patchwork of orchards across the valley, and the resilient and kind-hearted community that works to sustain the success of the region. SEI is proud to support local solar initiatives that encourage economic development in the valley that we call home.

Energy Producing Communities in Transition

In the past few years, two of three major coal mines in Delta County have shut down and the surrounding community has suffered from nearly a thousand lost jobs. In the wake of the coal mine closures, SEI sought out a solution to aid in economic revitalization for the Valley, and the Solarize: Economic Revitalization Through Solar Program was born.  Solarize is an outreach model that includes a driving organization, partnered solar installers, and a streamlined process for community members to go solar with a tiered rebate system as an incentive. Combined with a 13-week outreach period, the model aims to inspire people to go solar together.

The project started in the North Fork Valley in 2015, and as a result of community interest in solar, expanded to include all of Delta County in 2016.  The final campaign, Solarize Delta County Farms, fell in line with the County’s adoption of C-PACE (Commercial-Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing, and in addition to the typical Solarize model,  it focused on bringing resources to farms and rural businesses on energy efficiency and renewable energy financing opportunities. Over the past three years SEI has reached over 1,200 people in the County through educational outreach on solar, and as a result of all three campaigns, there have been nearly 60 new solar installs equaling over 400kW, nine new jobs, and over $1.5 million invested by community members in solar energy in Delta County!

Our local initiatives also lead us into regional high school classrooms with the creation of the high school (Solar for Schools High School Solar Career and Technical Pathway) program. Through this program, we can offer SEI’s industry-leading technical training in solar to local students, providing a pathway to one of the fastest growing industries in America.

Our latest project is an extension of our Solar in Schools high school program. In partnership with our rural electric cooperative, Delta-Montrose Electric Association, and the Montrose and Delta County School Districts, we are installing 10kW of solar PV systems on six local high schools during the spring of 2018. Our objective is to include 200 high school students in the installation of these solar arrays at their high schools and have over 200 students a year learn about solar in their science or math classrooms. Additionally, a teacher training is in the works to help teachers include more hands on solar engineering projects in their curriculum specifically math and science classes. These systems will lower energy costs for schools, introduce students to the fastest growing industry in America, and start conversations about energy diversification in the community. We are not only creating a marketplace for solar in Rural America, but we are also working to educate and train the future leaders of a world powered by renewable energy.

Propelling Rural Solar Initiatives Forward
SEI now plans to take these Delta County initiatives and offer them throughout Colorado in a new program, Solar Forward. Through the program, SEI will work as a local solar development adviser, working within communities to host Solarize, SIS and even C-PACE outreach programs.

Communities Need You: Colorado Gives Day

These initiatives demonstrate that as the country, and the world transitions to adopting more renewable energy practices, rural America doesn’t have to be left in the dust, it can lead the way, and Delta County has been an example. SEI hopes to continue fostering the growth of local solar markets in rural Colorado, and we need your help to support these programs.

Now YOU can help SEI help rural communities in Colorado. This year Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday, December 5, and features a $1 million Incentive Fund. Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day will receive a portion of the fund, increasing the value of every dollar donated. Colorado Gives Day has grown to be the state’s largest one-day online giving event, raising more than $200 million since it began in 2010. All proceeds will go to SEI’s Colorado initiatives: Solar in Schools and Solar Forward. This is an opportunity to double your impact by making your gift on December 5 on the Colorado Gives Website!

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The season of giving: Donations benefit SEI’s scholarship program

Around this time last year, Solar Energy International (SEI) alum, Brittany Heller, sat down and made a list of goals for the upcoming year, one of them being to further her solar education through solar PV training, specifically in battery-based technology.  

Soon after Brittany met SEI Marketing and Communications Manager, Mary Marshall, and SEI Development Director, Marla Korpar, at a 200-kW installation in Norwood, Colorado with GRID Alternatives. Brittany was working as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the time with GRID, and Marla and Mary were VISTAs at SEI. After expressing her interest in SEI’s battery training, the SEI VISTAs encouraged Brittany to apply for the Heather Andrews Scholarship, and join them in Paonia that spring for SEI’s PV301L: Solar Electric Lab Week-Battery-Based.

“At that point I really wanted to take a class, and Marla and Mary really encouraged me to do it,” Brittany explained. “I was so stoked that SEI put a focus on women in solar, with women making up only 28% of the solar industry, it was amazing learning that they had that opportunity.”

In 2012, SEI established the Heather Andrews Scholarship Fund to support women’s solar training. Heather was a SEI alumna and solar champion who passed away Feb. 8, 2012 after complications from brain surgery. This scholarship supports female SEI students pursuing hands-on training at SEI’s Paonia PV Lab in Colorado. It also supports female SEI students with partial tuition scholarships for SEI online training.

“Receiving the Heather Andrews scholarship gave me a huge boost of confidence and opened up opportunities. It was so amazing to get to spend a week in Paonia, learning about battery-based systems from inspiring teachers working in all facets of the industry,” Brittany said.

Brittany went on to finish her AmeriCorps year at GRID with new battery technology knowledge in tow, and she taught two classes on living off-the-grid at the Sonic Boom and Arise music festivals.

“I feel so incredibly thankful for the SEI scholarship program. I wouldn’t have been able to take the courses I’ve taken at SEI had there not been scholarship opportunities. I feel supported knowing that SEI and the Heather Andrews Fund are purposefully funding women in solar’s education,” Brittany said.

The Heather Andrews Scholarship Fund for women, along with SEI’s Walt Ratterman Scholarship for developing countries, the Johnny Weiss scholarship Fund, and the Veterans and Active Duty Military program continue to give opportunities for students to develop their solar careers through the generosity of our SEI network.  You, too, can help support solar training access for everyone!

How to help? November 28 is Giving Tuesday, #GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that has been built by individuals, families, organizations, businesses, and communities in all 50 states and in countries around the world. Millions of people have come together to support and champion the causes they believe in and the communities in which they live.

Support solar education by donating on Giving Tuesdya to SEI’s scholarship funds.  Brittany explained: “My educational experiences at SEI have given me the technical foundations necessary to push forward in my career.” Help others do the same today! DONATE.

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Four SEI instructors team up to form nonprofit Remote Energy

Solar Energy International (SEI) is excited to announce the formation of Remote Energy, a new 501(c)3 for-impact organization. Remote Energy was started by four SEI instructors: Carol Weis, Brad Burkhartzmeyer, Chris Brooks and Jason Lerner – with one of their board members being SEI’s former international director, Laurie Stone.

Recently SEI hired Remote Energy to teach and provide a customized, battery-based PV class for the Rural Renewable Alliance (RREAL) to train Liberian technicians as part of RREAL’s Skip the Grid program. Remote Energy used their extensive international experience and curriculum development skills to adapt SEI’s proven PV training curriculum to address the specific needs and market of the attendees. Remote Energy and SEI hope to continue this partnership to reach even more technician’s and trainers worldwide in 2018.

Mary Marshall, SEI’s Marketing and Communications Manager, speaks with Carol Weis about the formation of Remote Energy:

Mary: What is Remote Energy and why did you form it?

Carol: Remote Energy’s core goal is to provide customized solar electric technical and training expertise to technicians, organizations, businesses or agencies that implement international development projects. We specialize in train-the-trainer’s courses to build local capacity in country and aide technical schools to start their own solar training program within existing departments.

Our group saw a need for high-quality customized trainings for international and lower-income populations.   We like to partner with organizations looking to use renewable energy to address issues related to jobs, health, clean water, education, gender equality, and alleviating poverty.

The Remote Energy core team has worked together for years on individual projects – doing international trainings and curriculum development – but before we all were operating our own companies. It became clear that we had a shared common vision – so it made sense to join efforts. We knew that we could take on more projects and reach a larger audience by starting an organization together.

Mary: Who is involved in Remote Energy and what parts of the world have they taught in?

Carol:  Our team together has conducted training activities and projects in more than 25 countries. We all have similar backgrounds as licensed electricians, solar installers, and working as solar trainers both nationally and internationally.

For me, I have traveled a lot to Haiti since 2009 teaching installers, training hospital technician’s in solar system maintenance, and building local capacity.  Most recently, Brad and I worked for the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) to help them develop a 40-week national training program for their new National Solar Training Center, run in partnership with Haiti Tec, a local technical college in Port-au-Prince.  Our curriculum is now taught in Creole by local trainers.  I have also taught in Africa and Asia.

Chris and Brad speak Spanish, and have conducted trainings in Central and South America as well as Africa and Asia. They have developed and implemented PV capacity building programs and water pumping projects in developing communities worldwide.   When they are not traveling, they work together for a solar installation company, Sun’s Eye Solar, in Tacoma, WA.

Jason is a licensed electrician an electrical contractor in WA, and has been installing off-grid systems in the San Juan Islands for 20 years. He started teaching for SEI in the Costa Rica and Guemes Island classes. It was really his initiative which pulled us all together to start working as a team.

It is exciting for me to have the opportunity to work with such a strong, qualified group that has a mission of bringing high-level education to countries with scarce economic resources. Our combined experiences position us to work on a variety of projects, from disaster relief efforts to creating top notch training centers.

Mary: How do you see your partnership with SEI developing?

Carol:  The Remote Energy team will continue our strong partnership with SEI by providing instructors for the Spanish and English PV programs.  We will also collaborate with SEI to bring technical PV training to populations that are generally underserved by capacity building programs, like the program we did with SEI and RREAL this past October.

Mary: What type of projects is Remote Energy excited about?

Carol: What I like doing the most is training trainers and helping those instructors set up solar programs within their existing communities and programs. There are technical colleges all over the world that could easily add solar to their existing electrical degree program to build up their local workforce -they don’t need to re-invent the wheel.  There is a tangible excitement in the classroom when teaching in emerging economies as they explore the impact solar technology and education can make. It is also extremely important that women are at these technical trainings as well – and thus I am looking forward to teaching more women-only classes internationally as well.

Our team also has the expertise and desire to partner with organizations to bring energy access to impoverished areas focusing on clean water, health and education. An example of this is doing PV training within the health sector by working with hospitals who are adding solar electric systems.  We have taught hands-on classes to designers and installers to assure that systems are built robust and to standards, as well as having taught specific trainings for on-site technicians who needed to maintain large inverter/battery systems to make sure systems last a long time. Good technicians are just as important as doctors in providing reliable health care – as they keep the lights and lab equipment energized. This type of training is crucial.

Our expertise can also aid in disaster relief efforts.  For example, this fall Chris Brooks is using his water pumping experience to help install solar inverter systems on existing AC water pumps to get clean water to Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria damaged electrical lines.  We would like to get more funding to do more of this type of work.

To find out more about Remote Energy and their projects, connect with Carol at carol@remoteenergy.org or visit Remote Energy’s website at remoteenergy.org.

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Rural Renewable Energy Alliance and SEI partner to teach a Liberian technician training

The following is a guest blog post submission from Carol Weis, former SEI staff member and co-founder of Remote Energy, who recently completed a training with the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance.

In October 2017, Solar Energy International (SEI) taught a 2-week intensive battery-based class, partnering with Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL) at their facility in northern Minnesota for technicians from Africa. This training was part of RREAL and the Northeast MN Synod Women of the ELCA’s Skip the Grid effort to bring solar electricity to hospitals in West Africa, and followed a large PV diesel hybrid installation at Phebe hospital in northern Liberia. Several of the hospital technicians were invited to attend this course, and were joined by students from Zambia and Nigeria. SEI hired me, co-founder of Remote Energy and former SEI staff member, to customize the curriculum for the students and to be the PV technical trainer for the class which was supported by Outback Power.

The Dynamic 5

The “Dynamic 5” – or D5 as the five students called themselves – came to the class with the desire to bring solar back to their communities, which largely lack electricity. Because this was a small group of five students with a shared common vision, I  was able to set up the class in a way that allowed the students to actively participate and use their new growing vocabulary of solar terminology each day to teach each other.

Each day the students came to class with a new solar application in mind, as they learned about what is technically possible.

Muzalema, a Mandela Washington Fellow, came to the course with the single focus of learning how to design an off-grid freezer so she could freeze fish for the aquaculture women’s center that she had helped start in Zambia. The women in this group are taught about aquaculture, given fingerlings to raise, and then the cooperative buys the fish back once raised to boost enterprise and food in the community.

Once in class, other ideas started percolating, and she saw another application for DC solar lighting for the maternal health clinics she works with which do not have electricity. Another organization she is active in, Safe Motherhood Alliance, provides maternal kits already that women have to purchase before giving birth which include sterile bedding, a sterile razor – and a candle to see if at night. Off-grid solar lighting would eliminate the need for candles and provide better lighting for the delivery room.

Muzalema was concerned though, that if the local fish center and the clinic were the only buildings in town with solar electricity, that many of the community members would try to bring their phones there to charge resulting in the failure of the batteries. Her classmates agreed, and had already experienced similar problems in their communities, so the class decided to design a solar phone charging station as a class exercise which would charge phones from the sun instead of the more common petroleum charging stations.

Bobo and Jojo are both technicians at Phebe hospital, and had participated in the earlier RREAL installation. They are also part of a team of technicians that installs Outback Power systems on smaller clinics. Because they needed specific equipment training, Outback generously donated funds, and their product technical curriculum, to the project, which allowed the purchase of live equipment, and the ability to trace wires, commission, and learn programming on a system.

Wole, from Nigeria, was the human calculator for the group – trained as a nuclear engineer – he would do all calculations in his head. By mid-week had declared he wanted to make a career move to solar and saw many applications back in his country of origin. Dikar, originally from Liberia, was the glue for the class with his extremely funny demeanor and ability to make us all double over laughing. Still just saying his name brings a smile to my face.

Final Projects

Because this was a small class – on the final day, the students were required to give a presentation to the RREAL staff and their classmates on a project of their choice that they wanted to install in their country. They were asked to make it as realistic as possible and to demonstration as much of their new found solar knowledge as possible.

Wole, from Nigeria, chose to demonstrate the solar charging station. He discussed the benefits of using solar in this application versus the more common method of using petroleum generators. He walked through his design parameters and explained his choices, he drew out a full schematic – adding future expansion needs and some creative theft protection ideas as well.

Bobo and Muzalema role played a scenario of making a presentation to a UN commission of Health Ministers, proposing the idea of adding 20 new Outback Power systems to maternal health clinics. They used the live system in class to talk about how the system would work, and to explain the components function.

Dikar and Jojo role played the scenario of giving a presentation to elders in their village proposing a small DC lighting system for a school in their village so that students they knew could study at night. Their business name was D & J Solar – and I suspect that this business will become a reality soon.

RREAL and the Lutheran Women

The Lutheran Women of Backus, MN generously provided housing for the participants and lunches each day at the class. My compliments go to BJ and Jason at RREAL, who are a model organization reaching many people with energy assistance. Their Skip the Grid efforts are now focused on a second project for Curran Hospital in Liberian, and the two trainees will be part of the installation crew again next year.

Carol Weis can be reached at carol@remoteenergy.org, or see the website at remoteenergy.org.

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SEI Curriculum Development team updates PV203 Battery-Based Fundamentals course to reflect fast-growing energy storage market

As the solar market continues to thrive both in the U.S. and on a global scale, the spotlight has increasingly been on energy storage. Whether it’s the attention from Tesla’s promise to build the world’s largest lithium ion battery in Southern Australia that made industry and mainstream news headlines alike, or the recent conversation on how storage can impact the grid in the wake of natural disasters, there’s no denying that batteries have become a renewable energy hot topic.

At Solar Energy International (SEI), it is an ongoing priority to keep our solar energy training aligned with the trends of the ever-changing solar industry. This is why we are so excited to announce that after months of extensive research, technical brainstorming and collaboration, the SEI Curriculum Development Team is ready to reveal a comprehensive update to our PV203 Battery-Based Fundamentals course. The updates were made to reflect changes in available technologies and code requirements in the fast-growing energy storage market.  

“SEI’s curriculum development team undertook the PV203 course update to ensure that our students are confident and well-educated on the latest technologies as they explore these new opportunities,” SEI’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Sarah Wilder, explained.

Highlights of curriculum updates include:

• Battery bank sizing examples for lithium chemistries, including upfront and lifetime cost calculators for different battery chemistries
• A new “modes of operation” lesson discusses new options for energy storage systems such load-shifting and peak load/demand shaving
• New equipment on the market such as the Tesla Powerwall and Enphase’s AC battery
• 2017 NEC language and requirements for energy storage systems

“At SEI we know that the energy grid of the future will look very different from the energy grid of the past. All across the world, storm-related power outages continue to dominate news headlines while at the same time, new energy storage solutions are becoming cheaper, safer, and more readily available for both small and large-scale systems,” Sarah explained.

Stay up-to-date with the most important industry topics and start your battery training with SEI. The next online session of PV203: Solar Training- PV Fundamentals (Battery-Based)  starts January 8th, hunker down for the winter and learn about energy storage!

 

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Help support a solar-powered radio station in Tanzania

In 1997, Lukas Kariongi was an eager young Maasai from East Africa who traveled to Solar Energy International (SEI), for solar energy training. At SEI, he began his life-changing training to be a solar technician as a tuition-funded scholarship student.

When Lukas first began his SEI journey back when the campus was based in Carbondale, Colorado, he linked up with SEI co-founder, Johnny Weiss. Aligning with SEI’s mission of a world powered by renewable energy, Johnny works as a consultant on initiatives with NGOs in the developing world, as well as Native American Projects in the United States.

Now, for nearly 20 years, Lukas has been working to fulfill his goal of solarizing his home village of Terat, Tanzania. As district-wide progressive village leader, he recently started and is the managing director of Rural Community Support Organization (RUCOSUO), a community-based NGO focused on solar development.

Working with Johnny in Tanzania, Lukas’ solar accomplishments to date include: Starting a training school for Maasai youth that features hands-on practical solar training and computer skills, working with local entrepreneurs selling/installing pico solar and home PV systems, and Lukas and RUCOSUO are developing a plan to revitalize a dysfunctional generator powered mini-grid, to turn it into a model solar battery-based microgrid.

On top of all of these accomplishments, Lukas and Johnny are excited to announce their latest initiative, The Maasai Village Solar Radio Project, with the goal to solar power a newly established and much-needed radio station in Tanzania. Solarizing the radio station will be a major step toward promoting solar power to all the villages throughout the Simanjiro District. Additionally, ongoing and future solar applications for the region include: solarizing maternal health dispensaries, health clinics, solar home systems, primary schools, and solar water pumping systems.

The program needs your help to get off the ground, and at this point, the program is taking donations from now until December 18, with exclusive SEI-themed giveaways including gear and classes, available if you donate now. Donate today on the program’s crowdfunding page and learn more about Maasai and updates on the program’s blog.

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SEI’s local solar initiative, Solarize, concludes with over 400kW of solar installed in Delta County

Solar Energy International’s (SEI) Solarize Delta County Farms has officially come to a close, and the cumulative success of all three Solarize campaigns can finally be revealed. The final results are: nearly 60 new solar installs equaling over 400kW, nine new jobs, and over $1.5 million invested by community members in solar energy in Delta County!

Solarize is an outreach model that includes a driving organization, partnered solar installers, and a streamlined process for community members to go solar with a tiered rebate system as an incentive. Combined with a 13-week outreach period, the model aims to inspire people to go solar together.

SEI has been working on local economic development through solar initiatives in its rural homebase, Delta County, since 2015. In the past three years, two of three major coal mines have closed in the region, and the community has suffered at least 1,000 job losses. SEI sought out a solution to diversity the local tax base in the absence of coal, and ‘Solarize,’ economic diversification through kickstarting a solar market efforts were born.  

The project started in the North Fork Valley in 2015, and as a result of community interest in solar, expanded to include all of Delta County in 2016.  The final campaign, Solarize Delta County Farms, fell in line with the County’s adoption of C-PACE (Commercial-Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing, and in addition to the typical Solarize model,  it focused on bringing resources to farms and rural businesses on energy efficiency and renewable energy financing opportunities.

Solarize Delta County Farms held 20 educational events with various speakers that included: Delta Montrose Electric Association, the C-PACE Director, The Colorado Department of Agriculture, The Colorado Office of Energy, local banks, local farms with solar, and partnered installers, Empowered Energy Systems, Sunsense Solar, and Black Canyon Resources. Solarize was also featured in 15 community summer festivals and business events to spread the word about the program. Many of the events incorporated opportunities to learn about government programs such as C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) and REAP (Rural Energy for America Program) that help farms and businesses fund energy efficiency upgrades on their property, including solar installation.

Over the past three years SEI has reached over 1,200 people in the County, spreading solar education through these Solarize campaigns. With the help of partnered installers SEI has streamlined the process of installing solar for residents of Delta County. Brad Burritt and Danielle Carre’ from Empowered Energy Systems said the following about Solarize:

“It was an honor for our team to work with SEI and DCED on the Solarize Campaigns.  We provided to Delta County home and business owners state-of-the-art PV systems that will produce very low-carbon, low priced, and reliable energy for decades to come.  And, Solarize helped grow our company and our team, adding a number of new well-paying jobs to our local economy.”

Although the sun has set on Solarize, SEI hopes to continue fostering the growth of local solar markets in rural Colorado. To learn more about the Solar Forward program, SEI’s Solarize spinoff that aims to catalyze Solarize programs throughout Colorado, contact Local Solar Development Director, Mary Marshall at mary@solarenergy.org.

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