GRP Exam: What to Know, What to Study On the Green Roof Professional (GRP) Accreditation Training discussion board… Student 1: With the GRP exam coming up quickly, I’m wondering what you can tell us about what to expect in the exam. Is the Week 10 exercise an example of what… Continue reading “GRP Exam: What to Know, What to Study”
Solar Women Summer Series: Funding Sun Through Solar Investing/Borrowing We’re wrapping up the Solar Women Summer Series, and Audrey Desiderato, the Co-Founder/ COO of SunFunder, is helping us end things on a sunny note! SunFunder finances solar projects “beyond the grid” and offers investors opportunities to help fund offgrid solar projects, as… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Funding Sun Through Solar Investing/Borrowing”
Solar Women Summer Series: Silicor CEO & WiSE Award Winner Terry Jester We met Terry Jester, CEO of Silicor Materials, at the WiSE Luncheon during the ASES Solar 2015 Conference at Penn State. She spoke with us about her role as CEO, the benefits of solar silicon, Silicor’s Icelandic expansion and her… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Silicor CEO & WiSE Award Winner Terry Jester”
Oakland, CA Inside Sales Professional Position PVComplete Insides Sales Professional Position in Oakland, CA. Job Title: Inside Sales Professional Location: Downtown Oakland, CA Overview: PVComplete is fast growing solar software startup based in downtown Oakland. Our flagship product is the PVComplete solar design software platform. Our… Continue reading “Oakland, CA Inside Sales Professional Position”
Solar Women Summer Series: Cycle For Science The Solar Women Summer Series continues! Meet Elizabeth Case and Rachel Woods-Robinson, the young women behind Cycle For Science, a cross-country education initiative and journey. What is Cycle For Science? Why did you set out on this journey? Rachel: Cycle for Science is both a journey… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Cycle For Science”
Get Building Before NESEA’s BuildingEnergy NYC 2015 BuildingEnergy NYC 2015 “BuildingEnergy NYC is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary conference that offers practical, hands-on solutions to the financial, environmental, legal, and maintenance challenges facing NYC building owners and practitioners in every neighborhood and borough. Conceived in 2012 and nearly… Continue reading “Get Building Before NESEA’s BuildingEnergy NYC 2015”
Solar Women Summer Series: Law and Business in the Solar Industry This week’s Solar Women Summer Series features Chelsea Turner and Latasha Terry, employees at Solar Frontier Latasha (right): Legal Counsel J.D./M.B.A. with Solar Frontier Chelsea (left): Business Development Manager with Solar Frontier Tell us your stories. How did you get involved in the… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Law and Business in the Solar Industry”
Enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage, Get Wes Kennedy’s Battery Selector Tool! Why enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage? You’ll access the Battery Selector Tool! Decide the best battery for your application, from a cost perspective. This is a great tool for engineers, designers, and decision makers when determining the best battery to use… Continue reading “Enroll in Advanced Solar + Storage, Get Wes Kennedy’s Battery Selector Tool!”
Free Lecture: Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage Sign up for Christopher LaForge’s FREE Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage Lecture today! In this video lecture, Chris explains how commercial scale storage will affect the market for commercial clients, some of the major players that are in the current expanding… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Commercial Photovoltaic Design- Integrating Commercial Scale Storage”
HeatSpring Solar Alumnae: From Courses to Consultants & CEOs! This Solar Women Summer Series interview features two HeatSpring Solar course alumnae, Karma Edwards and Shelley Cohen. Karma Edwards (left), MBA, LEED AP is an independent consultant for Energy Engineering and Business Development. Karma completed our Solar PV Installer Boot Camp… Continue reading “HeatSpring Solar Alumnae: From Courses to Consultants & CEOs!”
Earning Solar Continuing Education Credits with HeatSpring In addition to gaining applicable experience, completing projects, and learning from expert instructors, taking a HeatSpring course can also provide you with the opportunity to earn Continuing Education Credits. Many of our courses are approved by professional solar organizations for continuing… Continue reading “Earning Solar Continuing Education Credits with HeatSpring”
Earning Sustainable Building Continuing Education Credits with HeatSpring In addition to gaining applicable experience, completing projects, and learning from expert instructors, taking a HeatSpring course can also provide you with the opportunity to earn Continuing Education Credits. Many of our courses are approved by professional sustainable building organizations for continuing education… Continue reading “Earning Sustainable Building Continuing Education Credits with HeatSpring”
Free Tool: Water and Hot Water Usage Estimator Download Andy Shapiro‘s FREE Water and Hot Water Usage Estimator! This tool is used in Building Energy Analytics: Measuring and Understanding Building Energy Use course, approved for 10 AIA LU/HSW Credits , 15 Building Performance Institute (BPI) CEUs , 6 GBCI credits (CE Hours for… Continue reading “Free Tool: Water and Hot Water Usage Estimator”
Solar Women Summer Series: Success in the Employee-Owned Solar Business Model The Solar Women Summer Series continues with Co-Owner and Director of Strategic Planning & Initiatives at Namasté Solar, Amanda Bybee. Namasté Solar provides PV design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and consulting services to residential, commercial, builder, non-profit, and government customers throughout the U.S., with… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Success in the Employee-Owned Solar Business Model”
FREE Tool: Series Parallel R-Value Calculator DOWNLOAD Dr. Allison Bailes’s FREE Series Parallel R-Value Calculator Calculate the average R-value of an assembly Wouldn’t it be nice if you could push a button and see how much of a hit the R-value of a building assembly takes… Continue reading “FREE Tool: Series Parallel R-Value Calculator”
Help us Welcome Partner ASES & Show Off YOUR Solar Home! Established in 1954, the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is the nation’s leading association of solar professionals & advocates. ASES is the US Section of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). The ASES mission is to inspire an era of energy innovation… Continue reading “Help us Welcome Partner ASES & Show Off YOUR Solar Home!”
RETScreen as a Handy Toolbox The following article was written by Michael Ross, Expert Instructor of HeatSpring’s Mastering RETScreen 4 for Clean Energy Project Analysis course– approved for 16 AIA CEUs! RETScreen is the name given to two widely used software tools available for free download from the Government… Continue reading “RETScreen as a Handy Toolbox”
FREE Lecture: High Performance Building Assemblies Take Peter Yost’s Free High Performance Building Assemblies Lecture today. Spend an hour learning about building assemblies with Peter Yost of BuildingGreen. Heat dries them out, so the more we manage energy flows through our building assemblies, the more we need… Continue reading “FREE Lecture: High Performance Building Assemblies”
Solar Women Summer Series: Business Development in Solar The Solar Women Summer Series continues with Danielle Sheppard, Business Development Associate at Locus Energy headquartered in San Francisco, CA. What do you do in the solar industry? How’d you get started? My first experience in the solar industry was an entry-level… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Business Development in Solar”
FREE Lecture: Low Carbon Building Take Bruce King‘s Free Low Carbon Building Lecture today. What good is a “Net-Zero” building if just the act of making it dumps a huge load of CO2 into the air? The urgency of climate disruption demands that we… Continue reading “FREE Lecture: Low Carbon Building”