Ken has been teaching solar electric classes for the last 5 years.  Ken was first asked to give an hour presentation on PV grounding at the 2005 CoSEIA Annual Conference.  This presentation was so well received he was asked to design and give the CoSEIA 3-Day PV Installer Workshop by President Jon Klima.  Again in 2007, Ken was asked by CoSEIA to design and present an advanced PV class.  Ken’s Advanced PV Code Class was the result, showing the many changes in the 2008 NEC that affect solar installations.   A code class now required for the CoSEIA Certification.

Ken Teaching advance code class to 125 inspectors March 4th 2010

In 2007, Ken saw the need for and started offering a simple basic PV class.  Soon after, he developed a Hands-On class using the roof of a garage at his shop in SW Denver.  In 2008 and 2009, Ken helped Arapahoe Community College get their PV Training Program started and taught their first 2 sessions of classes and the Hands-On class.    In early 2009, Ken conducted a special class for the Denver Electrical inspectors, and since been asked to give an all day inspectors class to over 100 state wide electrical inspectors in March 2010. 

 At the end of 2008, Ken was asked by a company in Boston to give a three-day PV seminar at various locations on the east coast.  From May until September 2009, Ken has given 10 of these seminars.  He has received good feedback from these classes. As Ken sees more and more PV training facilities emerging onto the scene during this last year, he has decided to design a class directed toward electrical tradesmen wanting to enter the PV industry.  This class would be a fast track toward a NABCEP Installer Certification. Ken is dedicated to educating anyone involved in the solar industry in an attempt to improve the quality of installations based on the guide lines of the National Electric Code.

On the 5th day of the NABCEP 5 day class, Ken and his students will build a working OutBack PS2 battery backed up system from scratch.