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Solar panel installation training seminars

How to fit solar panels? Want to learn solar installation from Solartwin? We hold one-day solar courses.

Top solar seminars: designed to give a potential Solartwin solar panel installer all the know-how required to confidently install solar panels and related components as part of the Solartwin solar energy system.

Scheduled seminars

We have the following solar seminars scheduled. For more details, or to register now, just click on the corresponding “more info” icon.

Date

Seminar title

Location More info
26/06/2012 Surveying, specifying, installing & commissioning Solartwin. Chester more info 
11/09/2012  Surveying, specifying, installing & commissioning Solartwin. Chester   more info

New! Download our latest training presentation!

Learn the basics about solar panels without leaving your desk! In Microsoft Powerpoint and Quicktime formats.

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Future seminars

Below are future solar seminars which are available, but currently not currently scheduled. If you are interested in attending any of the solar seminar titles below, call 0845 1300 137 or 01244 403 407  or email Peter Reed  p.reed@solartwin.com

Other solar courses. Please ask. We offer a wide range of bespoke one or more day training courses and consultancy on a wide range of solar energy subjects including:

  • Introducing solar thermal in cool climates (general introductory content)
  • The Solartwin solar panel concept and how Solartwin works (mainly technical content)
  • Solar energy in education (technical, plus educational aspects)
  • How to specify, install and commission Solartwin solar heating systems in domestic projects (technical)
  • Solar heating in social housing, what to do and not to do (general conceptual topics)
  • How to specify, integrate, install, commission Solartwin solar panels in large scale projects (advanced technical)
  • Solar energy as a profitable growth area in an existing or new business(commercial / business planning)
  • How to draft successful large scale solar energy grant applications(concept and practical)
  • Mentoring schemes for trainee solar panel installers (practical, theoretical, and technical)
  • Solar water heating for.. (titles include) Designers, Architects, HECA Officers, M&E Contractors, Social Housing Development Officers, Plumbers, Roofers, Builders, Aid Projects.

Our solar seminar leaders are skilled communicators in their fields with a range of backgrounds. These include: solar installation, business entrepreneurship, education and research.

Most, but not all solar seminars are chargeable. For seminars, up to 50% of the seminar costs are normally rebated the first time you buy a panel, provided this option is taken up within three months.

Your Solartwin seminars are interactive, designed from a “can do” perspective and are tailor made to fit your specific needs. They will normally take place at a location near you. Please ask us for your bespoke costed solar training seminar programme.

For speed, and for the sake of the environment, Solartwin offer feasibility checks and fixed price solar quotes by phone.
Unique in the world, Solartwin's phone survey now also uses online aerial photographs of your roof in most urban areas!

Unlike most solar surveys, our instant surveys and quotes are completely free and with no obligation.
Click here to request a survey

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0845 1300 137 or 01244 403 407

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