This Fall, join Solar Energy International for a three-day Solar Hot Water Workshop in co-sponsorship with Sun Earth Inc. Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of designing and installing domestic solar hot water systems.

This Fall, joinSolar Energy International(SEI) for a three-day Solar Hot Water Workshop in co-sponsorship withSun Earth Inc.Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of designing and installing domestic solar hot water systems. Topics covered include:
  • safety procedures
  • batch heaters
  • anti-freeze systems
  • PV powered pumping
  • radiant floor heating
  • maintenance
  • mounting options
  • lessons learned
  • and more.
Classroom theory will be complemented with tours of working systems at the Sun Earth Inc. facility.

The workshop will be taught by Chuck Marken (AAA Solar), a New Mexico licensed plumber, electrician and heating & a/c contractor, who is also the Thermal Editor of Home Power magazine; and Dave Congour (Colorado Clean Energy Systems LLC), a Colorado licensed plumber and SEI alumni.

Solar Hot Water will be held at the Sun Earth Inc. facility in Fontana, Calif., Oct 1-3, 2007. Tuition for this workshop is $480 ($450 for SEI members). For more information visit http://www.solarenergy.org/workshops/fontanasunearth.html.