Solar PV Plant Layouts and SLD Drawings with AutoCAD

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What is AutoCAD?

AutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) software that when used in solar PV design, allows solar designers and engineers to create precise 2D and 3D CAD solar panel drawings, plant layouts and blueprints, to help in the process of solar installation. As a software, it is extremely feature-loaded and broad.

AutoCAD for solar system design is a sought-after skill by companies around the globe. This online solar energy training program covers every basic and intermediate function that a solar PV designer would need to know to draw professional-grade client-ready solar PV system designs and layouts.

AutoCAD for solar designers helps you create comprehensive project designs for ground-mounted, rooftop, carport and sloped roof solar projects. It also provides energy production modelling, automatic module layout, wire sizing and stringing, and electric single line diagram generation. Additionally, with AutoCAD, solar designers can easily compare and contrast different array layouts for their various installations and choose from a growing library of mounting systems to implement the optimal solar project.

Key Takeaways Of This Solar Training

A complete walkthrough of AutoCAD, with relevance to its application in solar energy
The science, mathematics & art behind solar PV system design
Understanding client requirements and site assessment
Familiarizing yourself with the functionality and essential tools of AutoCAD
Creating detailed and professional CAD layouts of various solar PV systems
Polishing your CAD design and meeting international standards
Learn to draw professional and clean Single Line Diagrams for solar PV plants [SLDs]
Avoiding common and critical CAD drawing pitfalls
Case studies from New Jersey [USA], Pune [India], Abu Dhabi [UAE] and Victoria [Australia].

Program Structure and Learning Resources

After registering for the course by making an online payment, your access to the course content will be shared with you within 30 minutes.
You will then be able to learn from the online course videos 24*7, and have your doubts cleared on your dashboard by the instructor, for a period of 3 months. There are no Live/webinar sessions.
To support the videos, there are downloadable files, Excel calculators, international case studies and bonus lessons.
Towards the end of the program, there are progress tests, case study assessments and a detailed instructor feedback.
A Certificate of Completion is shared with the trainees who successfully clear our program.

Other resources in this course:

A free 30 day trial version of AutoCAD will be shared with you.
There is an exclusive student and instructor dashboard for all your doubts and queries.
The program videos and instructor’s assistance will remain accessible for a limited period of 3 months from the start date of the program.
For the purpose of revision, you may request access to the course contents once again for a period of 7 days, anytime after the 3 month period.
Signing up for a Reo course gives you default lifetime access to our exclusive solar networking platform.

Reviews

I am much impressed by your lectures, the instructor's method of teaching and the doubts clearing method. This is the best ever platform for solar design engineers.

Badar Kaleem

Senior Engineer

The instructors are professionals with updated market knowledge & the course interface made for candidates is commendable. Case studies are a plus point for evaluating performance.

Ahmed Pasha

Design Engineer

Online Course Syllabus

Lesson 1 – Basics of Solar PV Systems
Types of solar power plants, solar components, common terminology, module spacing, row spacing, and types of racking.
Lesson 2 – Movement of the Sun (Latitude, Longitude and the Sun’s movement)
Latitude, longitude and the sun’s movement as per seasons.
Lesson 3 – Understanding Tilt & Azimuth
Definition, impact and calculation of Tilt & Azimuth.

Lesson 4 – Understanding your Client’s Requirements
Typical project life cycle, lead engagement, evaluating electricity bills, using Irradiance maps and Google maps, and estimating plant capacity.
Lesson 5 – Creating your First Solar Design with Excel
Using excel calculators to calculate the number of modules and inverters, selection of modules and inverters, and string sizing.

Instructor Profile

Gautam Bagri

Solar Design Engineer

Mr. Gautam Bagri, your instructor for this online training course, is a NABCEP certified solar design consultant with over 6 years of industry experience. He is well versed with developing residential, commercial, community and utility scale solar projects, with clients around USA, India, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia.

Having designed and engineered solar projects of 1GW+ around the world, he is keen to put his passion and skill in solar energy to good use by training other solar professionals and aspirants. By teaching the right skill-set required for the industry, he intends to help every trainee understand solar design in a much better way.

Request training sessions for your team

Personalize your own curriculum with our instructors and schedule a LIVE online training session for your company on various solar energy skills and subjects.

Sessions are subject to instructor availability

Highlights Of This Program

What makes this Reo program different and miles ahead of others

Highlights Of This Program

What makes this Reo program different and miles ahead of others

4 international case studies ranging from 300kWp to 3MWp

Design solar plants in locations across USA, Abu Dhabi, Pune,
and Victoria (Australia).

Equivalent to 6 months of on-the-job learning and professional training

This program has been curated to make you independent - be it at your job or as a freelancer.

Created by professional video editors to enhance your visual experience

This course is designed by professional editors for an easy-to-watch experience.

Digital Utility Panel - an exclusive & innovative
in-video side bar

In-video utility panel that assists you with important pointers, notifications and more!

Designed in Dark Mode
for easy late night
learning

Learning late night has been made easier with the course produced entirely in dark mode.

Stay directly connected with other students of this program

Access our online community for learning, interaction, queries and networking.

Frequently Asked Questions

Language: English

Pre-made/Self-paced/Recorded Videos: Yes

Live/Webinar Classes: There are no Live classes/webinars associated with this course because regular high quality Live classes can only be hosted when there are enough high quality instructors. The solar industry is extremely young and availability of skilled and knowledgeable professionals is not yet mainstream. You would have to significantly compromise on the quality of the instructor if you were to rely on Live/webinar based training as less-experienced instructors are more frequently available to host webinars.

We have taken our time to work with some of the most experienced professionals in the space, and packaged their years of experience into these state-of-the-art online courses.

You will have online access to the videos and the instructor for a period of 3 months. After completion of the 3 month period, you may make a request with the Reo Support Team to share access to the course videos for 7 days, for the purpose of revision. This request can only be made once. The course videos are not downloadable.

Every course at Reo is created in collaboration with highly experienced professionals who are actively working in the solar industry. It would neither be fair nor possible for us to offer the students a lifetime access to their expertise, at this fee, in order to respect the time and availability of our instructors.

We have designed 4 different ways through which your performance will be monitored throughout this program.

The following will not be counted towards your final Certification:

2 sets of short progress tests.
Practice case studies.

The following will be counted towards your final Certification:

An online test [Pass mark required: 60%. Retakes allowed.]
An AutoCAD case study [Pass mark required: 70%. Retakes allowed.]

A Certificate of Completion from Reo will be awarded to the students upon successfully clearing these assessments

$ 149 all incl.

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This solar training program includes:

- 10 hours of online course videos
- 22 downloadable files, datasheets and Excel calculators
- Dashboard for clearing doubts with the instructor
- Online tests and practical case study project with detailed performance evaluation and feedback
- Certificate of Completion (View Sample)
- 4 solved practical case studies
- Unsolved solar design practice case studies and bonus lessons
- Program contents and instructor access active for 3 months from the start date of the batch

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