PV, Energy Storage and the 2023 NEC, with 2 hours of Building and Fire Codes with Bill Brooks of Brooks Engineering and Sean White of HeatSpring (Additional Ticket Required)

Price:
$450 SEIA/SEPA Members
$550 Non-members

NABCEP: This course is approved for 6.5 NABCEP CE hours.

This year for their 12th SPI/RE+ NEC workshop, Bill Brooks and Sean White, for the first time, will include Building and Fire Codes! This means 2 hours of the International Residential Code (IRC), the International Fire Code (IFC) and the NFPA 855 Standard for Energy Storage Systems, which has you covered for the NABCEP CE Building and Fire Code requirements for every 3 years. There will be 4.5 hours of NEC, including 690 PV Systems, 705 Interconnections and 706 Energy Storage Systems.
This class will be faster paced and more dangerous than Space Mountain across the street, with megajoules of levity to keep you hyper-engaged. Caffeine, lunch and snacks are also part of this super-deal.

Here are a few topics S&B will cover:

-NEC Articles 690 PV Systems, 691 Large-Scale PV, 706 Energy Storage Systems, 705 Interconnections will be emphasized
-Utility-Scale PV and ESS
-Distributed Generation PV and ESS
-Bidirectional EV charging Codes
-Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)
-Introducing official PV ""string"" circuits in the 2023 NEC! You can now officially call it a string!
-Bill is currently working on the 2026 NEC (knowing the future will also help you pick stocks).
-UL 3741 listing for Rapid Shutdown.
-NEC 705.13 Energy Management Systems, which can be a work around for the limitations of load side connections in 705.12 and source connections to a service (formerly supply-side connections) in 705.11.
-690.8(A)(2) Circuits Connected to the Input of Electric Power Converters, which allows us to use the maximum input current of an inverter rather than the current of the PV for sizing wires and equipment.
-When to use NEC 706 and not 480 for ESS.
-Making sense of the different UL listings for ESS.
-ESS rules in garages, smoke alarms and heat detectors.
-Setbacks and pathways of PV systems on buildings.
-NABCEP Energy Storage Installation Professional (ESIP) and PVIP exam tips.
-Busbar and switchgear engineering supervision calculations.
-Central vs. String Inverters for Large PV.
-ESS Emergency Shutdown vs. PV Rapid Shutdown.
-Physically feeding the grid in the room without an interconnection agreement, guerilla style.
-Stupid Prizes!

Understanding the Code by listening to people that write the Code and books on the Code, can save you magnitudes more dough than the price of this workshop.

-Please note that as this workshop qualifies for NABCEP credit, your name and contact information will be shared with the provider of the workshop for credentialing purposes.

Register Here.