Skills.Standards.Safety.Scale.

Practical, hands-on training for technicians, engineers, facility teams and organisations — covering solar PV design and installation, battery and hybrid inverter systems, electrical safety, and system operation and maintenance. Every module is taught by working engineers on live equipment, and assessed against what a trainee can actually do with a meter in their hand, not what they can recall in a written paper.

Africa’s clean energy transition is not held back by hardware; panels and batteries arrive faster than the skills to install them safely. The bottleneck is competence — and a badly installed system does more damage to the sector’s reputation than no system at all. We built this programme to close that gap. Trainees move from first principles to a commissioned array: sizing a system against a real load profile, selecting components that will still be available in five years, mounting for genuine wind loading, terminating DC correctly, setting protection, and proving the installation with an insulation resistance test rather than an assumption. Battery and hybrid inverter work is taught with the same rigour, including the fault diagnosis that separates a technician who can install from one who can be trusted to return alone. Safety runs through everything — DC arcs do not extinguish themselves at zero-crossing the way AC does, and that single fact reshapes how a competent installer works. Programmes run at our centre or on your site, and can be scaled from a single facility team to a cohort of contractors.