REQUIREMENTS No previous knowledge to join the course successfully. Please remember to bring your Laptop, download and register to SMA Sunny Design 3 (Desktop Version).

TARGET GROUP Entrepreneurs and their teams, installers, architects,

planners, decision makers, sales specialists, government, education, end customers and you if you want to get your business growing fast! You if you want to avoid costly mistakes.

INSTRUCTOR Expert Course Faculty Leader

Alexander Kaub CEO / Dipl.-Ing. Environment Techniques

Authorized Expert for Photovoltaic Equipment (TÜV)

Language

English

DATE & TIME Tuesday-Friday, May 15th till 18th 2018

Location: Fort Bonifacio/ Manila, the Philippines

Pulxar TVI Inc.

86 Bayani Rd,

Brgy. Western Bicutan

Taguig City

Certificates

Participants who finish successfully the Design and

Installation & Commissioning (Hands On)

will receive the appropriate The Academy certificate

COURSE INVESTMENT (limited seats) - PV Basics in a glance (Day 1): USD 120 - Designing Solar PV systems (Day 2 & 3): USD 240 - Installation and Commissioning (Day 4): 190 USD Join everything (whole event) USD 520

The price above per participant incl. food and beverages, certificate and examination fee excluding VAT +5%

Necessary knowledge for all who work in the in the PV Market.

The training is designed to empower the participants to work in the Solar Energy Sector. It´s is necessary to take the right decisions and be able to plan, design, buy, install and operate infinite, clean and sustainable solar energy systems.

Don´t miss this unique event (limited space), register now!

On- and Off-grid hybrid systems design, installation & commissioning training Grid connected PV-Systems are not only very environment friendly and long lasting, especially in the Philippines they are also very cost effective. Mostly their owner will earn a truly considerable amount of money with. This training will empower you, to choose the right system for your customer and install and commission it properly. In sunny regions of the world, PV plants in combination with battery systems have already become the most reliable way to provide electrical energy to grid-isolated villages or consumers. The designing of PV plants with battery systems for isolated grids is complex because specially the hybrid energy system is composed of several critical components, which correct sizing determines the technical success of the project. This seminar with theory and practice is the perfect entry in this complex field.

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Day 1: Tuesday May 15th 9:00-16:30 PV Basics in a glance

Requirements: Curiosity and passion for Photovoltaic solutions. The knowledge of this course is necessary to understand the Hands on and commissioning Trainings.

Content:

1. Components of PV-Systems

• Modules & inverters, Mounting system, types and costs, DC-cabling and connectors, Batteries, Grounding & lightning protection, monitoring systems, AC-material

2. Sunlight becomes electricity

• Performance and yield, global radiation, technical units

• Daily insolation, peak sun hours, azimuth and tilt angle

• Direct und diffuse sunlight, yield, the photovoltaic effect

• SMA free software Sunny Design as source for climate data and yield

• Knowledge transfer: use the data in your design

3. Electrical basics to understand the correlations

• Electrical basics, current, voltage, electric power, yield, temperature and radiation dependence, series / parallel circuits of solar modules

• Standard test conditions (STC), efficiency versus price • Practical exercises (individual and in small groups)

4. Solar modules and their properties

• Module technology, types, characteristic values, production, Common modules defects and how to avoid them

• Quality, testing criteria, module comparison, module

5. Inverter and their properties

• Inverter types, inverter concepts

• PV grid tied inverter, bidirectional inverters, island inverter

• MPP-Tracking, unbalanced load, installation sites

• Aging mechanism, live span, service and maintenance

• Min. and max. modules in a string, parallel connection of strings, datasheet

6. Shading

• Types of shadows and their effects

• Methods to identify shadows and to calculate the yield losses, 4 solutions to minimize the effects of shadows

Day 2 & 3: Wednesday and Thursday May 16-17th 9:00-16:30

Designing Solar PV systems

1. Design insights of inverters

• Design roles, max. system voltage and current, MPP range

• Nominal power ratio

• Performance ratio

• Influence of orientation and shading

• How to choose the best inverter design

• Compare the different inverter designs regarding their yield production and the specific inverter prices

• Choosing inverters

2. Profitability analysis of PV plants for your customer

• Yield forecast, cost of a PV-plant, calculating Return Of Investment, Loans and equity, own consumption / feed in, calculation levelized cost of electricity; Cash account / compare of investments / detailed; Analysis and diagrams, arguments to convince your customer

3. Design a PV-array

• Design roles summary

• Determine the number of solar modules

• Pay Back Period

Stand-alone Systems, the principles of Off Grid PV systems

4. Off Grid essentials

• Energy production

• Energy storage

• Storage management

• Load management 5. The planning and design of off-grid systems based on selected examples

• Load analysis

• System efficiency

• PV-Generator design

• DC connected isolated photovoltaic systems

• AC connected isolated photovoltaic systems

• Properties of Batteries & Battery Design

• Designing of the hybrid energy systems 6. Designing Off-Grid Hybrid Energy Systems with Sunny Island Battery inverter

• functions, protections and sizing of the Sunny Island inverters and the Multicluster Box

• SMA concepts for hybrid energy systems

• Function and protections of SMA PV inverters connected to isolated low-voltage AC grids

• Function, main features and protections of Sunny

Island battery inverters

• Function and protections of the SMA Multicluster Box

• Practical Design tasks of Sunny Island hybrid energy system using the SMA software Sunny Design

7. installation of PV arrays in a glance

• Static issues, wind load and structural stability

• DC lines, Permanent weather resistant cable ways

• DC combiner boxes

• Surge protective devices (SPD)

• Residual current devices (RCD)

• Measurement of PV-Systems

• Measurements before and after commissioning

• Hands On Training “measurement of solar modules”

Requirements: Previous knowledge about PV is

necessary, otherwise “PV Basics in a glance” course is mandatory

Content: • SMA concepts for hybrid energy systems

• Function and protections of SMA PV inverters connected to isolated low-voltage AC grids

• Function, main features and protections of Sunny Island battery inverters

• Function and protections of the SMA Multicluster Box

Day 4: Friday May 18th 9:00-16:30

Installation & Commissioning of: 1. SMA Sunny Boy PV inverter 2. SMA Sunny Island Battery inverter 3. A Phocos or IMEON All in One Hybrid inverter (Hands On) The professional installation and commissioning of SMA On- and Off-Grid energy systems are essential to ensure a reliable power supply, specially to the isolated loads. This training qualifies you for the commissioning of SMA PV inverter and also for the Sunny Island Off-Grid inverter. The main topics are the required configurations of the Sunny Island battery inverters and SMA PV inverters. After installation you will do this configuration via the build in WLAN of the inverter. Please note that places for this training are limited and intended for small groups of professionals. In rare cases, we may therefore have to cancel bookings.

Content: • Module Commissioning Measurements • SMA installation and commissioning roles (Hands On) • Relevant parameters of SMA PV inverters • Relevant parameters of the Sunny Island battery inverter • Relevant parameter of the PHOCOS /or IMEON hybrid inverter • WLAN configuration process • Advanced configuration of Sunny Island battery inverters

Requirement: Knowledge about the PV-Basics, Design and

Installation is mandatory

Content: • SMA concepts for hybrid energy systems • Function and protections of SMA PV inverters connected to • isolated low-voltage AC grids • Function, main features and protections of Sunny Island battery

inverters • Function and protections of a IMEON or PHOCOS • All in One Hybrid inverter • Designing of Sunny Island hybrid energy system using the • SMA software Sunny Design •

Important: Please remember that you need to bring your laptop

and charger to do the commissioning.