The Non-Profit Professional Solar Training Experience through SEI

SEI served more people in 2011 than ever before in our 20 years of service to the renewable energy sector.  We have been able to accomplish this benchmark through innovative online learning and world-class lab facilities. The reason the SEI Online Campus and in-person hands-on labs are important to the broader renewable energy community is that SEI is getting stronger and more effective in supporting our non-profit mission of renewable energy education world-wide. 

We often get asked why someone should start their professional solar training or seek continuing education through a non-profit organization like SEI.  Through a non-profit training organization like SEI you get unbiased exposure to the most current technologies, the brightest minds with the most experience, the most current processes and theories related to renewable energy, all without the force feeding of product or manufacturer specific infomercial style of education.  Although we do recognize the benefit of eventually learning the specifics about a particular product brand or technology at some point in your training path, the first step in your education should be a brand or product agnostic learning approach.

This professional style of education and training exists as strongly in our online courses as it does in our in-person and lab training offerings.  Understanding the bigger picture technical and social concepts in solar, wind, micro-hydro, and developing world applications is key in order for an individual to fully absorb how important renewable energy is both socially and professionally.

We have been offering in-person and hands-on lab training for over 20 years and online solar training courses for over 10 years.  SEI has most likely trained more solar professionals and people interested in renewable energy than any other training organization or school in the world.  We invite you to become part of this big and continuously growing SEI family through our SEI Online Campus or in-person workshops and labs.   Help us make 2012 an even bigger year in renewable energy education - Join us online at www.solarenergy.org!