Level: 3 | Duration: 4 Weeks | Start Date: September
Details: Wednesday, 6pm – 9pm (TBC 2025)
THIS IS A FREE COURSE FOR RESIDENTS OF THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION ONLY (LCR) (Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, or Halton)
Why should I study this course?
Solar panels generate the most power during daylight hours, adding a battery is becoming more popular to enable you to utilise the power during the evening. Due to an increased demand in the market more installers are needed.
Battery storage has an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by storing renewable energy and mitigating climate change, which is critical to protecting humans, wildlife, and ecosystems.
This introductory course will give you the basics about renewable energy battery storage and help you decide if this is a career you might be interested in. Or perhaps you are considering having batteries added to your solar system and want a short course to give you more information.
What can this course lead to?
If you are already a qualified electrician or plumber this course can act as a steppingstone to more green qualifications.
Entry Requirements
Learners do not need to have any prior knowledge, we just ask for a willingness to learn.
What does this course lead to?
If you are already a trained plumber or electrician this will act a steppingstone to a longer, further renewable suite of qualifications. If you are new to renewables this course will act as opportunity to sample the industry and consider a change in career to look at electrical or plumbing pathways at Level 2.
Topics of study during this introductory course:
- Making electricity
- Storing electricity
- Voltage
- Current
- Power and Energy
- AC and DC as applied to battery storage systems
- Calculating electricity costs
- Electrical health and safety
- A history of batteries
- Cells and batteries
- Battery construction
- Configuring battery capacity
- Battery and electricity costs in a system
- Batteries in series and parallel
- Applications in renewables systems
- Matching to an inverter
- Battery health and safety
For more information or any enquiries, please call: 0151 257 2053 or email advice@riversidecollege.ac.uk
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes