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The all-day “Commercial Solar Design & Install” course will provide you with invaluable insights and practical knowledge. This is your chance to kick-off, jump-start or propel your career in the renewable energy industry.
Hosted by 20-year industry veteran and the Academy's Lead Education Veli, from CEC award-winning Greenwood. With special guest RPEQ Mr Gil Rhodes, helping you navigate through the intricacies of what DNSPs, Ergon and Energex, require. Accredited by the SAA, this course provides you with a whopping 60 CPD Points!
Included with the full-day course is a free networking pub lunch, and morning tea delivered to your desk!
This is a rare opportunity to be educated in-person by the experts of Greenwood Academy. Tickets are super limited. This is deliberate, as we want to give everyone the opportunity to engage educators on the comprehensive design and installation of a 1MW commercial PV solar system.
We understand that cash flow can be difficult and we don't want that to be the barrier to your education. Consequently, courses can be paid in full, or over three monthly instalments.
For insight into the 22 modules that'll be covered over the day, see below. We can't wait to see you there!
Keep you CPD points up to date in this interactive 1- day course, right here at our office in Collingwood.
Complimentary lunch included.
DATE: 10th September 2025
LOCATION: TBC
RUN TIME: Course starts at 8:00am and finishes 4:30pm
BREAKS: 40 min lunch, 15 min afternoon tea
CPD POINTS: 60
Exclusive Live Training is SAA ( Solar Accreditation Australia) accredited.
Hidden costs labour and materials
Understanding whats involved from a commercial solar perspective:
Network Application Costs
Grid Protection Costs
Testing of Grid protection Costs
Roof structural engineering costs
Cost of materials
Cost of labour
DNSP requirements
What it is
What are the cost implications
What is needed documentation wise
Importance of attention to details
DNSP requirements:
Difference between Primary and Secondary protection
Where and when it applies
What settings are looked at
What does the relay do
DNSP requirements:
What it does
What's its purpose
Who requires it
What does it cost
Initial scope:
What is its role
The importance of the preliminary costing
What it looks like
What should and shouldn't be included
Bill analysis
Authority to act
Design based on financials
Data:
The site vist aim
Organising where, whem and whom
General information collected
Detailed electrical information collected
Time spent based on project complexity
Decider:
Want to include about your company
Focus on your strengths
Other sevices offered
Site and project scope
How to present the data
Guarantees, logistics and contract
How, why and when:
What it is
RACI
Importance of PM
What and who gets managed
Documentation
Site equipment
Task responsibility
Inverters:
Inverters Selection criteria
CEC list approval
Design flexibility
Production loss comparisons
Reputation, warranty and technical help
Solar panels:
Selection criteria
CEC list approval
Design flexibility
Panel degradation, efficiency, pricing
Reputation, warranty and technical help
Installation material costs ratios
Payback
Rail:
General and structural
What standards apply
Basic roof structural concepts
Penetrative verus non
Inverters:
Inverter Number of inverters and inputs
DC cable selection
Current carrying capacity and heat dissipation
Inverter table
DC voltage drop
Importance and referenced standards for DC voltage drop
Actual cable runs and how to calculate
The calculations
DC, Earth and tray:
DC and Earth cable and cable tray
Limitations of the standards when looking at 1500V 120degree rated Dc cable
Should and shall
Parallelling versus single strings
Cost comparison between DC sting options
Earthing and material costs
Cable tray costing comparison
Option comparison
AC protection:
Inverter circuit breakers
Calculating inverter current
The 1.25 rule
Breaker sizing and derating
AC main protection:
Main Breaker
Calculating the cummulative current
Sizing the main breaker do's and don'ts
What sized breakers are available, MOCB
Inverter station:
Inverter station
Where can they go
Spacing requirements
Example diagram
How far away from the DB or MSB
Cable tray requirements
Run number one - CCC and tray:
Inverter to GridSafe -CCC and Cable tray
Correct AC cable selection
Advantages of high temp cable
Using AS3008 to determine CCC
Understanding the derating tables
Looking at differences in CCC due to cable tray covers
Heat dissipation and its effects on CCC
Run number one - Vrise:
Inverters to GridSafe - Vrise
Apps that do it for you
Calculations based on the impedance method
Which inverter to base the calculation
Resistance, reactance, impedance
How to calculate accurately
Importance of conductor temperature
Run number two - complete:
GridSafe to MSB
Step by step approach
Relevant tables in AS3008
CB protection and Cable rating relationship
Multi or SDI selection
Cable routing, cable tray design
Single cables or parallel configuration
Working with cable, flexibility
Vrise calculations
Run number three - complete:
MSB to POS
Measuring this run
What is the overall correct Vrise calculation sequence
What can and can'r adjust
Onsite and other:
What documentation is needed
Importance of having the right working drawings
DNSP paperwork, commissioning and other
Spreadsheet approach to documentaion control
Why is it needed
Importance of customer documentation