It isn’t commonly known, or even advertised, that about U.S. workers are electrocuted every week.  This is the cause of 12% of all young worker workplace deaths.
It takes very little electrical energy to cause injury or death to the human body.  This can occur with as little as 100 milli-amperes of current.  This is only [...]

  
By Burt Price, Executive Vice President, Ameri-Skills Technical Training
One of the greenest opportunities in years is brewing on community college campuses across America.  The U.S.A. has officially embarked on a mission to reduce its addiction to foreign oil and is now investing heavily in building a green economy.  The combination of President Obama’s Renewable Energy [...]

Batteries
Technically, a battery is any device that can store energy.  But what we typically refer to when we think “battery” is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity through a galvanic cell.  A galvanic cell is a device consisting of two electrodes of different metals that we call anode and cathode, and an [...]

Roofers and Solar Installers don’t always talk the same language when it comes to explaining roof angle.  Solar Installers are always told to install panels at an angle – given in degrees (usually based on latitude position).  Roofers, on the other hand, use construction terms to define a roof angle. A  roofer describe this angle [...]

Hundreds, or even thousands, of people have been killed or injured while working around power lines, or even when working on common household electrical circuits. In fact, ordinary 120 volt house circuits are the most common source of fatal electrical accidents. Therefore, to help you with ‘Safe Job Performance’, we offer the following [...]

Up to now, there existed only one option for any kind of acknowledgement of entry level knowledge of Solar Photovoltaic basics. This option was the NABCEP Entry-Level Certificate of Knowledge.
Today, this no longer holds true. Thanks to the Electronics Technician Association (ETA), you now have another option. Today you can now earn an [...]