I recently realized I was a ways away from knowing everything I needed to know about designing commercial solar systems in California.  With this revelation in mind, I took Jack and Christina's workshop on designing solar systems.

I cannot recommend this course highly enough.  There is tremendous demand for great solar system design--and not very many pv system designers available--so design standards are not as rigorous as I would like. 

As a developer [and designer if need be] of commercial pv system design--I need good design.  PV systems push close to 600V DC, a voltage that not many electrical engineers and contractors have a ton of experience working with.  The fact that pv is current limited requires you to think differently--and this course helped me do that.

Jack and Christina were a pleasure to learn from, and the class was an ecumenical mix of contractors, engineers, and solar industry professionals.  If you need to know more about designing commercially scaled pv, I recommend this as a very good way to spend three days in San Francisco this December.