2nd Edition

Solar PV Engineering and Installation Preparation for the NABCEP PV Installation Professional, Specialist and Inspector Certification Exams

By Sean White Copyright 2019
314 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The NABCEP PV Installation Professional (PVIP) Exam is the gold standard certification exam for PV professionals and is famously difficult to pass. As the industry grows and jobs have become more specialized, the Board has responded to this with NABCEP Specialist Certification Exams. As well as the content of the PVIP, this book also covers the material in the Design, Installer and... Read more

Chapter 1 Memorize and Familiarize

Chapter 2 The National Electric Code

Chapter 3 Article 690: solar PV systems

Chapter 4 Article 705: interconnections

Chapter 5 Safety, strategy and investing your time wisely

Chapter 6 Wire sizing

Chapter 7 Solar trigonometry

Chapter 8 Practice exam: 70 questions, four hours

Chapter 9 NABCEP Professional questions: With answers and explanations

Chapter 10 Bonus practice exam questions

Chapter 11 Strategy

Biography

Sean White is an experienced teacher, instructor and professional in solar PV based in the USA. He received the 2014 IREC 3i Award (Innovation. Ingenuity. Inspiration) in the category of Clean Energy Trainer of the Year and the 2011 Mike Holt Enterprises 1st place Instructor award, and was on the NABCEP PV Installation Professional Technical Committee. He is the author of Solar Photovoltaic Basics, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), Photovoltaic Systems and the National Electrical Code (Routledge, 2018, with Bill Brooks) and PV Technical Sales (Routledge, 2016).

‘Sean’s book was instrumental to my passing the NABCEP exam. It really hit the nail on the head.’ – Robert Wylie Hyde, Kaplan Clean Tech PV Instructor, NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional

‘I comfortably passed the NABCEP Exam and I couldn’t have done it without Sean’s book!’ – Tim Oyler, NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional