Four products, three formats and one honest answer about which you need. Nothing here is a prerequisite for anything a certifying body issues.
Most course catalogues are written to make every course sound necessary. This one is written so you can rule things out.
Four live days across three weeks, live online, open to students anywhere in the world. It covers the whole PV Associate body of knowledge at the pace a motivated adult can actually hold, taught in the order a system gets built, with the calculations worked on screen rather than shown finished. The examination is booked separately when you are ready.
Who it is for: people who want fixed live dates rather than an open-ended course, who learn better with someone in the room, and who want the exam booked for them rather than left as homework. Full outline →
The same body of knowledge, recorded and sectioned into modules with knowledge checks. Start any day, twelve months of access, and no scheduling around your shifts.
Who it is for: people already working full time, people outside the three cities who would rather not sit in a live session at a fixed hour, and anyone who reads faster than a class moves. Full outline →
A 130-question bank with a recorded explanation behind every answer, and an optional live half-day review session. Bought on its own by candidates who trained somewhere else, and added by about half of our own students.
Who it is for: anyone within a month of an exam date. What is in it →
Fall protection fundamentals, equipment inspection, and CSA Z462 electrical safety awareness. This is not PV content and it does not lead to a PV credential. It is what a site asks for before it lets a new person onto a roof or near a live combiner.
Who it is for: new entrants with no construction background, and employers onboarding a crew. What is covered →
Six sessions on the part of the business that has nothing to do with panels: licensing and insurance, how an ESA Notification of Work actually gets filed, quoting against a consumption profile rather than available roof area, the net metering application, supplier accounts, and the 30% refundable federal credit your commercial customers can claim.
Who it is for: installers going out on their own, and contractors in an adjacent trade adding solar to what they already sell. The six sessions →
Three or more people from the same business, on the same course, at the same time, are invoiced at a group rate with attendance records provided. On-site delivery at your premises is available where the headcount justifies the travel. Put the number and the city on the enrolment form.
Everything above is solar photovoltaic training, on the NABCEP side. Solar Canada is separately a BPI Test Center, administering Building Performance Institute certification examinations — building envelope, air leakage, combustion safety and residential energy auditing. A different certifying body for a different trade, with its own pages.
If you diagnose existing buildings rather than put panels on them, start at the BPI catalogue, or read which of the two you actually need — the honest answer is usually one and not both.
Commissioning, performance verification, fault-finding and the maintenance contract that turns an installation into recurring revenue. In development for 2027. It is not for sale yet and we would rather say so than take a deposit on it.
Solar Canada delivers training. It does not issue credentials and it does not decide who holds one. NABCEP sets, delivers and scores its own examinations and does not require any particular course — ours included. Anything you are told to the contrary, by us or by anyone else, is wrong.
None of them, in the strict sense. NABCEP issues the credential on the basis of its own examination and its own eligibility rules. Training prepares you for the exam; it does not award anything.
No. Exam seats are sold on their own, at the same price, to candidates who trained anywhere or nowhere.
Yes, within your access period. You pay the difference and we credit what you have already spent.
Not yet. Materials and delivery are in English. It is on the list.
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