US Solar Institute
2341 NW 30th St , Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

The US Solar Institute is the first and only school to offer advanced solar education, both in online and in-person formats. It also offers a fully supervised on the job training (internship), where we build real world solar installations and work on real world solar applications. The school has the most comprehensive curriculum currently available in the solar market.

US Solar Institute is a Professional Development Institution that serves and teaches qualified personnel, with its main goal being the advancement of an individual’s knowledge and career.  The US Solar Institute is led by master instructor Ray Johson, Founder and President. He has spent over two decades in the energy-savings industry and founded a college in 2008. His direct mentor was the engineer in charge of bringing to life the first viable solar energy system in the United States in 1972. Ray is also the master instructor for Underwriter Laboratories.       The US Solar Institute is housed in a 10,000 square-foot facility in the heart of Oakland Park. It has a state of the art lab with mock roofs, inverters, and panels that give the student an incomparable hands-on experience. Coupled with well lit and educationally promoting classroom, USSI is built and set up in a very dynamic and stimulating way. The school has both older and brand new technology, aiming to teach students how to troubleshoot and repair older equipemnt, and how to install brand new equipment.

Online Solar Training Courses

PV101 Online Solar Training  If you are looking for Solar PV knowledge to see if the solar industry is for you, or you wish to simply improve your understanding of the emerging photovoltaic and solar energy market, this course, PVO101 Solar Fundamentals Online Course is the first step to increase your green literacy in the basics of solar power and solar energy. This course is for anyone who is already in the industry and wishes to obtain CEU credits, or anyone who wants to just learn about solar. There are no requirements and this course is available to everyone.  You will find yourself comfortable with the basics of PV electricity, market factors, types of solar energy systems, fun facts, and history of solar power. The course introduces important topics such as basic electricity, market factors that have driven the solar energy industry and types of solar energy systems for homes, business and off-grid applications such as site lighting and water pumping.  Designed to prepare anyone for the energy revolution and to explain how franchise utility laws have and are keeping clean solar power out of the market. PVO101 Solar Fundamentals Online Course is a great value to anyone wanting to understand the energy market.

Advanced Solar Training
Our Advanced Solar Training Program at USSI provides the most relevant solar energy industry education offered in both in person and online fashion. Courses have been written by professional licensed industry professionals and offered exclusively to the market by both The US Solar Institute and Underwriter’s Laboratory. The partnership between these two industry leaders has led to the creation of the most relevant, modern and updated solar energy vocational training material on the market today.

What makes UL and USSI stand above others offering advanced solar training is our courses are actually advanced and students learn to apply their knowledge in Real World applications so they may know exactly what is required to install safe, NEC code compliant advanced solar energy systems.Advanced Solar Training courses offered by USSI are approved in many jurisdictions for CEU’s or Continuing Educational Units. CEU’s are a requirement for licensed contractors, engineers and architects in most states and municipalities.

Certified PV Installer Certifications must also complete CEU’s every couple of years to maintain their good standing and US Solar Institute’s Advanced Solar Training and Continuing Education Courses are approved by both Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL), and North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP).