Excel for Solar Energy: Designing Photovoltaic Systems

Designing a solar energy system requires absolute precision to ensure efficiency, safety, and financial viability. This text-based course teaches you how to build your own professional calculation models in Excel to size photovoltaic systems accurately from scratch. You will start by mastering foundational solar energy terminology, understanding solar irradiance data, and learning the core mathematical formulas used by industry professionals. Next, you will translate these principles into clean, dynamic spreadsheets that automate your engineering calculations. What you'll learn: Understand key solar terminology, photovoltaic principles, and irradiance data; Calculate peak load requirements, battery storage capacity, and inverter sizing; Build custom Excel models to automate solar system dimensioning; Apply modern Excel dynamic arrays and lookup functions for component selection; Analyze system losses, tilt angles, and shading impacts using structured formulas. This course guides you step-by-step from basic electrical and solar concepts to building fully functional, reusable sizing spreadsheets. It is designed specifically for beginners, solar enthusiasts, and aspiring energy consultants, with no prior advanced engineering or complex programming experience required. Start building your own solar sizing tools and take control of your photovoltaic projects today.