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Why You Should Attend
This course can be applied toward your NC State Renewable Energy Technologies Diploma program aims to produce graduates who are not only technically knowledgeable about renewables but are also well versed in the policy and management issues surrounding the industry today. Classes on renewable energy business models, energy consumption analysis, principles of distributed generation, and discussions on incentives and impediments for the renewable energy industry complement the technical and practical applications training.
The program covers six distinct sustainable energy technologies: wind power, photovoltaics (solar electric), solar thermal, biomass, biofuels, and residential passive solar and sustainable design and construction (also known as green building). It also regularly includes introductory sessions on other technologies currently available such as geothermal energy, microhydro, hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell technology.
Attend and You'll Learn
Monday, December 14, 2009
Instructors: Roger Lawrence and Wade Fulghum
- Sources and types
- Safety
- Direct current
- Introduction to alternating current
- Coursework
- Applications
- Review of objectives
- PV modeling tools
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Instructor: David Del Vecchio
- Overview and history of PV
- PV electric principles and overview
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Instructor: David Del Vecchio
- Solar resource siting
- Electric load analysis
- PV modules
- Batteries, inverters, controllers
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Instructor: David Del Vecchio
- Basics of PV design and electric generation
- Sizing stand-alone systems
- Grid tied systems
- Installation, maintenance and servicing techniques
Friday, December 18, 2009
Instructors: David Del Vecchio and Rebekah Hren
- 15-minute presentations from diploma recipients
- Hands on PV assembly (Solar House annex)
- Optional NABCEP exam
Meet Your Instructor(s)
Roger G. Lawrence PE CEM is an independent consultant and sole proprietor offering specialized engineering services. His activities are associated with control and power technologies for total system efficiency, reliability, and availability, for energy conservation and for energy optimization. His experience affords an exceptional awareness and understanding of both the industrial manufacturer and the electric utility.
Mr. Lawrence has completed specialized engineering for a variety of industries including: petroleum and petrochemical, automotive, pulp & paper, steel, cement, water and waste water, textiles, rubber and plastics, and both municipal and investor owned electric utilities. He has also provided specialized engineering services for universities, government, non-profit, and commercial entities. He has undertaken technical research and training for EPRI, the US Department of Energy (US DOE), and the Californian Energy Commission (CEC).
Mr. Lawrence has designed, developed, and manufactured power electronic equipment. He is experienced in the specification and systematic application of electric motors, ASDs, energy storage devices, and power quality mitigation equipment for reliable industrial systems. In parallel with these specialized engineering services he conducts workshops and seminars.
Mr. Lawrence graduated with a BSc (Eng) in Electrical Engineering and Associate of the City and Guilds Institute (ACGI) from Imperial College, London University. He has an MBA from Mercer University. He is a Senior Member of AEE and IEEE and a member of IEEE PES, IEEE IAS, IEEE PELS, IEEE RAS, IET (formerly IEE), and NSPE. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Georgia, Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK (CEng), and he holds the title Eur. Ing. in Europe.
Presently he serves as a member of the IEEE Standards Committee P1566 (for adjustable speed drives larger than 500hp), as Chairman of the Chemical Subcommittee of IEEE PCIC, and as Chairman of the Power and Energy Society (PES) and Industrial Applications Society (IAS) Chapters of IEEE ENCS. He was IEEE ENCS Chairman for 2006 and 2007.
Wade Fulghum serves as the project manager for economic development at the NC Solar Center. Funded by a grant through the Economic Development Administration, his role includes supervising a staff providing assistance to sustainable energy technology businesses. Technical services provided include financial analysis, business planning, grant writing, networking assistance and other services that help to create jobs for North Carolinians and bring greater private investment by creatively utilizing state and local resources.
Mr. Fulghum brings unique experience to this role, having worked in energy management as a project manager in the commercial construction industry, corporate finance & lending experience. As a small business owner, consultant, web developer & designer, he has gained extensive business strategy experience. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Warrington School of Business, University of Florida and an MBA in management from Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Organizational Change Management from Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI, and completed the Energy Management Course and the Solar Photovoltaic courses at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.
Mr. Fulghum also serves as the Chair of the Sustainable Energy subcommittee for the NCSU Campus Environmental Sustainability Team, is a member of the NCSU Conservation Awareness Team, American Solar Energy Society, the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, and Net Impact.
David Del Vecchio has 11 years of installation and design experience in the photovoltaics industry. He earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honor from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. He began installing photovoltaics in 1998. David has designed and installed off-grid, stand-alone solar/wind hybrid systems to straight grid-tied systems without batteries. During this period he lived off-grid for 5 years.
In 2005, Mr. Del Vecchio became certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) as a Certified PV Installer. Currently David owns his own company, Solar Seed, a consulting/design company assisting in bringing a PV project from concept through design drawings to commissioning.
Mr. Del Vecchio is a premiere PV trainer in NC, teaching for the NC Solar Center, Central Carolina Community College, and for Solar Energy International based in CO.
Rebekah Hren is a North Carolina licensed electrical contractor who has specialized in photovoltaics since 2004. She works with Honey Electric Solar Inc. designing and installing residential and small commercial solar systems, teaches PV design and install courses across the country, and writes for Homepower magazine. She lives in downtown Durham, NC, in a a solar powered, green-renovated 1930s home. Her book "The Carbon-Free Home, 36 Remodeling Projects to Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit," was published in 2008. Ms. Hren frequently speaks at sustainability conferences on green remodeling, including various solar and sustainable technologies.
Who Should Attend
Whether you are an architect, builder, electrician, plumber, businessperson, engineer or student, this program gives you the flexibility to choose courses that are essential and interesting to you.
Prerequisites
There is no prerequisite. You may take the courses in any order you like.
Credits You Can Earn
Individuals satisfactorily completing each one-week course will be awarded 3.5 CEUs and 35 PDHs.
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If you wish to be invoiced and pay with a Purchase Order (PO), please fax your registration form and the purchase order to 919.515.7614. If you do not have a registration form, call 919.515.2261 and request a form; however, NCSU employees may use this on-line registration to pay via IDT. |
