The first challenge when entering the renewable energy industry is understanding how to design and install projects. These articles are dedicated to teaching you the basics of how to design and install solar PV, solar thermal, and geothermal projects.

If you’re brand new

Click here to learn what is NABCEP and wether or not you should need to get the certification. If you’re serious about the solar industry and you want to get the NABCEP Certification, but you need to understand how exactly to apply, you can read more about getting the NABCEP Certification here.

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A Review of Solar and Geothermal Certifications, Licenses and Permitting
Solar Thermal Design and Installation Guide

Solar PV Design and Installation Guide
How to Design a Solar PV Array and Estimate Power Production
Geothermal Design and Installation Bundle

Building & Powering an Award-Winning Net Zero Energy Home

Can a home be beautiful, powered entirely by solar energy, use sustainable heating and cooling systems and save it’s owners roughly $3,500 a year? Why, yes it can. Just ask Joanne Coons, who built her award winning, single-family, Net Zero Energy Home in 2010. Sustainable Woman Joanne talks Net Zero standards, efficient appliances and goods, her […]

John Siegenthaler Investigates: Low Ambient Air-to-Water Heat Pumps

Low Ambient Air-to-Water Heat Pumps: An emerging renewable heat source for North American hydronic systems.
Electrically powered heat pumps, in many varieties, are destined to play an increasingly important role in heating and cooling buildings around the world.

Heat pumps capture low grade heat from solar-resupplied sources such as outside air and soil several feet below the earth’s […]

NYC Sets Precedent for Requiring Geothermal Certifications

The New York City Council recently passed local law 0609-A-2015 stating that all new city buildings or city-owned buildings undergoing a HVAC retrofit must use geothermal if the ‘geothermal system has the lowest net present value of all alternatives considered.’ This legislation is a big deal for designers and installers of geothermal projects because it requires a minimum […]

10 Reasons to Use LoopLink PRO

10 Reasons to Use LoopLink PRO
by Doug Carruthers
Looplink PRO is simple, powerful, web-based ground loop design software you can use for just $50/month. Specifically engineered for commercial geothermal designers, LoopLink PRO can handle projects from simple single building block loads all the way up to multi-building/multi-zone campuses.
Here are ten great reasons you should give LoopLink […]

Residential vs. Commercial Ground Loop Design Software Options

In this article, Ryan Carda, HeatSpring instructor and President of Geo-Connections, Inc., shares the differences between residential and commercial ground loop design software. Join his live webinar on August 19th at 10AM Central (see below for details).
Geo-Connections, Inc makes web-based ground loop design software, and we now have two products in our arsenal:

LoopLink RLC is for residential & light-commercial […]