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Renewables training courses

Ideal solar training courses

With a wide range of training courses on offer, you can be sure to find the perfect program for you.

Click the links below to view the course contents:

One day

New Energy Appreciation Course

Location

Ideal Technical Training Centre in Hull and the Centre of Excellence in Reading

As part of our commitment towards making technologies simple, a one-day New Energy Appreciation Course has been created for installers, heating engineers, plumbers, design engineers, customer service and sales staff.

This course has been designed to give an introduction to solar thermal, photovoltaic and heat pumps.

This introductory course acts as a taster prior to attending a more intense BPEC course.

Course Content

  • Introduction to Renewables
  • Hot water installation and plumbing layouts
  • Practical session-on the roof
  • Practical session-setting up controllers
  • Identifying parts
  • A certificate of attendance is awarded upon completion.

Lunch and refreshments are provided during the course.

Course Fee

£100.00 incl. VAT

Two days

BPEC Solar Domestic Hot Water Course

Location

Our centre is an Accredited Solar Centre Ideal Technical Training Centre in Hull

As part of our commitment towards making technologies simple we offer a 2 day solar BPEC training course, leading to full solar accreditation upon completion.

Course Content

The course is a mixture of both theory and practical. With a proportion of the course being spent working outside on a low level, purpose built roof. The second day is concluded by a examination.

Subjects Covered:

Day 1:

  1. Introduction to Solar thermal domestic hot water systems
  2. System sizing
  3. Hands on installing
  4. System layouts
  5. Practical session

Day 2:

  1. Solar controllers
  2. Commissioning systems
  3. Practical session - maintenance
  4. Assessment

Course Fee

£375.00 incl. VAT