Clean Energy Institute of GPEKS

Clean energy education is delivered through the Clean Energy Institute, the education division of GPEKS.    We offer course development services in various areas related to clean energy education as well as the delivery of our own courses in project feasibility analysis.

Development of Curriculum

We assist Colleges, Universites or other training centers in the creation, development and adaptation of curriculum and training material for:

• Solar PV installer courses (for installation and maintenance)
• Solar PV Project Development and Management
• Wind Turbine Technician Courses (for installation and maintenance)
• Wind Energy Project Development and Management
• Solar Water installer courses (for installation and maintenance)
• Clean Energy Project Financing Courses

 We provide a full range of services, including

• Local needs identification for clean energy courses and market study of the potential for the considered courses
• Assessment of the training needs of the target audience
• Creation of training program with breakdown of courses
• Identification of possible textbooks and creation and adaptation of new ontent (text, slides, exams, multi-media)
• Strategies for delivery, locating and hiring of teachers
• Hosting of Web based Clean Energy courses
• Provide marketing and logistical support services to organise on behalf of our education clients workshops and events

• Material initially developed by a partnership between the United Nations Environmental Program, the Global Environment Fund and the Canadian Government.
• Effective combination of web-based eLearning technologies, portals (currently the leading eLearning web portal), streaming audios/videos, etc.
• Exams on each technology (quizzes with questions of type multiple choice, fill the blank, multiple answers, matching text, open questions).
• Each exam ensures that participants have acquired enough understanding of the technology to perform a technical and economical pre-feasibility study analysis
• Participants are required to complete assignments to reinforce their understanding of the technology. Instructors provide feedback to each student individually on their assignments.
• Participants learn how to complete several RETScreen feasibility analyses from scratch. All important technical and economic aspects of the analysis are covered. The RETScreen assignments are based on case studies where all relevant context information is provided.
• At the end of the course, students complete a renewable energy project feasibility analysis based on a real project. Students can select from supplied projects, or come up with their own project proposal.

Clean Energy Certification Courses

Here is a list of our current project feasibility analysis certificate courses:

• Solar Air Heating
• Solar Water Heating
• Solar Photovoltaics
• Passive Solar Heating
• Small Hydro Project Analysis Certificate Course
• Wind Energy
• Ground-Source Heat Pump
• Biomass Heating
• Co-generation

In development:

• French project feasibility analysis courses

Visit our Clean Energy Institute site regularly as course and information is added on a regular basis.

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