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Learn renewable energy from people who've built the projects.

Short lessons and hands-on tools written by people who have developed, financed and built solar projects. Free, from your first role to your next one.

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The Energy Academy course catalog on a laptop: Asset Management 101, Asset Manager and Business Developer courses

30+Courses

590+Lessons

570+In-lesson interactives

8Disciplines

$0Always free

Where to start

New to solar, changing roles, or hiring? Start here.

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Short lessons on the parts of a project that trip people up: interconnection, tax equity, PPA pricing, closeout. Nearly all of them come with a tool you can run.

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Explore career opportunities

What does an originator do all day? What does an asset manager get the 6 a.m. call about? See each role, then the courses that get you there.

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Train my team

Stop re-teaching the same onboarding. Put new hires through role-based courses, from site control to financial modeling and construction planning.

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How it works

Learn. Practice. Connect. Apply.

Many lessons include interactive exercises and tools built from real project work. You learn the concept, then you make the call.

1. Learn

Short lessons on one concept at a time, written by people who have done the job.

2. Practice

Nearly every lesson has an interactive. Change the inputs, flag the bad assumption, make the call.

3. Connect

Build a member profile, join groups and find industry events.

4. Apply

Take it into your next deal review, site walk or project meeting.

Asset Management 101 lesson: interactive breakdown of solar asset operating cost drivers

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Run a real model before you sign up for anything.

These are the same tools inside the courses. Open one and try to break it. Or browse the reports, datasets and guides in the Resource Hub.

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Solar Financial Model Lab

Change the PPA price, project cost and debt terms and watch the sponsor IRR and DSCR move.

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Tool

Interconnection Roadmap

Walk a project from queue application to permission to operate, one step at a time.

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Live challenge · Closes Oct 31

Beat the Deadline

You inherit a 2 MWdc rooftop project in mid-October. Ten decisions, a $100,000 recovery reserve and a December 31 deadline. Win a $100 gift card.

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More Resources

Resource HubThe reports, datasets and guides we'd hand a new hire.

Project Cash FlowsFollow a dollar of PPA revenue down the waterfall to the sponsor.

Solar 101New to the industry? Start here.

Find your role

Every project needs eight kinds of people.

Before a solar project makes its first kilowatt-hour, it has passed through originators, developers, engineers, lawyers, financiers, market analysts, builders and asset managers. Pick your seat.

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