Have Certification Questions? Bring Them to Our Monthly Live Q&A Unless you’re working with certifications every single day, it’s easy to lose track of the details. We happen to be, and we’re happy to answer your questions. Our monthly Let’s Talk Certifications: Live Q&A sessions are here to help you… Continue reading “Have Certification Questions? Bring Them to Our Monthly Live Q&A”
New Free Course: Finding a Job, Networking, and Diversifying from Solar for Women The solar industry isn’t always an easy space to break into. For women looking to join the trades, the path can feel even less straightforward. Solar for Women, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and nonbinary individuals in the solar… Continue reading “New Free Course: Finding a Job, Networking, and Diversifying from Solar for Women”
New Course: Pre-Construction in Utility-Scale Solar The subcontractors you select, the contracts you put in place, and the commercial foundations you establish before construction starts will shape every aspect of project execution. A well-run pre-construction (pre-con) process is one of the highest-leverage things an EPC can… Continue reading “New Course: Pre-Construction in Utility-Scale Solar”
New Course: Owning the Customer Interconnection Experience Many people get introduced to interconnection the same way: someone hands them a stack of utility paperwork and says, we need these filed. So they do. They submit the applications. Then a problem comes up, and they realize there’s a… Continue reading “New Course: Owning the Customer Interconnection Experience”
What It Takes to Succeed in the Trades – Welding Program Supervisor Rachel Henry Rachel Henry knows what it looks like to be a welding student, and what it looks like to teach one. She was a 4.0 student, award nominee, and self-described “absolute sponge” in welding school. Now, as Welding Program Supervisor at… Continue reading “What It Takes to Succeed in the Trades – Welding Program Supervisor Rachel Henry”
Stop Losing Paid Seats When Team Members Move On If you’re a team training leader, you’ve probably run into this: someone leaves the company or changes roles before they’ve barely started a course, and a paid enrollment just sits there unused and forgotten. We care about helping you maximize… Continue reading “Stop Losing Paid Seats When Team Members Move On”
New Course Announcement: Transformer Specification & Applications for Inverter-Based Resources As many residential solar designers move up into larger C&I and utility-scale projects, the work starts to look pretty different from a rooftop install. Transformer specification is one of those areas where the learning curve shows up fast and where… Continue reading “New Course Announcement: Transformer Specification & Applications for Inverter-Based Resources”
How the Future of DER Interconnection Could Mirror the Evolution of Booking a Flight The interconnection process can make or break a project. And yet, it’s difficult to tell exactly how bad the bottlenecks truly are. Distribution-level interconnection data is fragmented across more than 3,000 utilities regulated by 50 different states, with few central… Continue reading “How the Future of DER Interconnection Could Mirror the Evolution of Booking a Flight”
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your BPI Cold Climate Air Source Heat Pump (ccASHP) Assessor Certificate I learned the hard way why proper heat pump assessment matters in cold climates. As a first-time homeowner in Colorado, I was excited to electrify my home and switch to an air source heat pump. I trusted the contractor who… Continue reading “The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your BPI Cold Climate Air Source Heat Pump (ccASHP) Assessor Certificate”
What is Hydronic Heating? Nearly five million U.S. single-family homes are heated with hot water or steam distributed through radiators or baseboard units. If you’re new to hydronic heating or just looking to fill in some gaps, here’s the basics. At its core, it’s… Continue reading “What is Hydronic Heating?”
Meet Tim Montague – Instructor Spotlight HeatSpring instructors aren’t always academics – they’re practitioners who also happen to teach. Most of them came to education after years (sometimes decades) in the industry, and that experience is baked into every course they create. The Instructor Spotlight series… Continue reading “Meet Tim Montague – Instructor Spotlight”
What is an Energy Market Forecaster for ESS? If a battery energy storage system is going to make money in a wholesale energy market, it needs to know something the market hasn’t told it yet – where prices are headed. That’s the job of an energy market forecaster.… Continue reading “What is an Energy Market Forecaster for ESS?”
What Tools Do You Need When Troubleshooting Ground Faults? Ground faults are one of the more frustrating issues a solar technician can run into in the field. They can range from hard faults with a clear voltage signature to resistive or intermittent faults where voltage won’t show up on a… Continue reading “What Tools Do You Need When Troubleshooting Ground Faults?”
New Course Announcement: Verifying the Refrigerant Charge on a Residential Split-System Air Conditioner If you’ve spent any time in the field as an HVAC technician, you know that refrigerant charge issues are one of the more common service calls you’ll run. A system that’s lost a significant amount of refrigerant is usually easy… Continue reading “New Course Announcement: Verifying the Refrigerant Charge on a Residential Split-System Air Conditioner”
Meet John Siegenthaler – Instructor Spotlight Behind every transformative learning experience at HeatSpring is a dedicated instructor – someone who brings not just knowledge, but passion, real-world experience, and a commitment to helping others grow. Though our online courses connect with students across the globe, there’s… Continue reading “Meet John Siegenthaler – Instructor Spotlight”
What is a Battery Simulator? If you’re building software for battery energy storage systems, you can’t just plug into a real battery every time you want to test something. That’s expensive, potentially damaging, and frankly impractical. That’s where battery simulators come in. In Peter Gruenbaum’s… Continue reading “What is a Battery Simulator? “
Celebrating Top Solar Companies: Sunpath Solar Georgia ranks seventh in the country for total solar installed capacity, yet it consistently lands near the bottom for behind-the-meter solar, with most of those installations concentrated in wealthier communities. That gap is exactly what Sunpath Solar was built to… Continue reading “Celebrating Top Solar Companies: Sunpath Solar”
New Course: Software for In Front of the Meter Battery Systems According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, developers plan to add 24 GW of utility-scale battery storage to the grid in 2026 – on top of the record 15 GW added in 2025 and more than 40 GW over the… Continue reading “New Course: Software for In Front of the Meter Battery Systems”
New Course: Energy Storage Finance Energy storage has crossed a threshold. The technology is mature, costs have come down dramatically, and customers are asking for it. Now the real work is figuring out how to structure a deal that actually pencils. Wes Kennedy has spent… Continue reading “New Course: Energy Storage Finance”
Meet Fred Brooks – Instructor Spotlight Behind every HeatSpring course is an expert instructor – a seasoned professional who brings not just knowledge, but passion, real-world experience, and a commitment to helping others grow. While thousands of students benefit from their expertise through our online courses,… Continue reading “Meet Fred Brooks – Instructor Spotlight”