📘 Complete Solar Energy Course for Electrical Engineering

📘 Complete Solar Energy Course for Electrical Engineering

From absolute beginner to job-ready professional — everything you need to design, install, and troubleshoot real solar power systems.

If you're an electrical engineer, technician, artisan, or renewable energy enthusiast looking to move into Nigeria's fast-growing solar industry, this course takes you from the fundamentals of energy all the way to practical, field-ready system design — no prior solar experience required.

Written by Engineer Miracle Ojiaku (R.E.E), a renewable energy and smart metering expert with close to a decade of hands-on field experience, this course distills real-world engineering knowledge into a structured, easy-to-follow guide you can start applying immediately — whether you're sizing your first off-grid home system or preparing to work professionally as a solar installer, designer, or consultant.

What you'll gain:

• A solid grounding in renewable vs non-renewable energy, and how solar fits into the bigger energy picture
• A true understanding of how solar cells, modules, strings, and arrays actually work — not just definitions, but the physics behind performance (insolation, temperature effects, V-I curves)
• The ability to construct and compare grid-tied, off-grid, and hybrid PV systems, including their equipment and trade-offs
• Practical skills in battery selection, charging, and maintenance — a major cause of system failure when done wrong
• Confidence in selecting panels, inverters, and charge controllers for any project size or budget
• Knowledge of array voltage calculations, system design (on-grid and off-grid), grounding, and protection — the engineering details that separate professionals from guesswork
• Bonus specialization in solar water pumping system design — a growing, high-demand niche in Nigeria and across Africa
• A recognized completion certificate upon completing the course

By the end, you won't just understand solar energy — you'll be able to size, design, and specify a working PV system for a real home, business, or community project.

📑 Course Contents

1. Renewable vs non-renewable energy — comparison, pros and cons
2. Solar cell, module, string, and array — key differences
3. Effect of insolation and temperature on the V-I curve
4. Advantages and disadvantages of PV systems
5. PV system construction
6. PV cell construction and principle of operation
7. Effect of PV cell connections — series, parallel, and combination
8. Types of photovoltaic cells
9. Grid-tied system — construction, equipment, and advantages
10. Off-grid system — construction, equipment, and advantages
11. Hybrid system — construction, equipment, and advantages
12. Battery construction and types
13. Solar panel construction, cables, and wiring
14. First-time battery charging and maintenance
15. Battery charging methods and battery cycles
16. Charge controllers in PV systems
17. Junction box and wiring
18. Mounting of PV systems
19. Solar tracking systems
20. Tilt angle and shading analysis
21. Panel selection
22. Inverter selection and types
23. Charge controller types
24. Determining PV array maximum voltage
25. PV energy output according to area
26. Off-grid system design
27. On-grid system design
28. Grounding in PV systems
29. Protection of PV systems
30. Busbar types and selection in PV systems
31. Types of water pumping systems
32. Design of water pumping systems