About solarsean.com, seanwhite.org & PVstudent.com
One day at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco, I was asked to teach a PV class at Merritt Community College in Oakland. I had passed the NABCEP PV entry level certificate of knowledge examination and thought that with my experience as a "professional test taker" having passed many levels of National and State Board Examinations, etc. that I could best help students by giving them tools to get a solar certification that would show the world that they have a certain level of knowledge. Some of my favorite classes were Board Review courses. Fun learning is memorable learning.
Here is a link that explains how the class began:
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Dr. Sean White
Currently Sean is an Adjunct Professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA
www.dvc.edu where he teaches an Advanced PV Class and will be teaching a C-46 Solar Contractors License Exam Preparation course in the Fall of 2009.
Sean is also now the first solar instructor at the first solar school in Pennsylvania. Enroll now at
www.solarschoolpa.com. This solar school has the only indoor grid tied PV system on the East Coast, which backfeeds the grid with 30kW of lights, even when it is snowing.
Sean also teaches PV at Solar University
www.solaruniverse.com in Livermore California 1 week per month. Sign up & tell them I sent you.
Here is the instructor page on their website:
Sean teaches other classes in Philadelphia, PA & Toronto Ontario Canada. He will soon be teaching in Costa Rica, where you can mix business with beaches.
Dr. White has been active in environmental causes for many years. He was a candidate for Contra Costa County District 2 Supervisor in 2000 & has been an active political activist since he was old enough to vote.
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Sean got his start in alternative energy as a PV technical researcher for Local Power for a decade, which is run by his good friends Paul Fenn & Julie Peters. They met in 1996 at Jerry Brown's We The People orginization, where they were active participants (
http://www.wtp.org/) Paul Fenn is the author of the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) law, which has been passed in many municipalities across the nation & promotes Solar Power among other things. Click on the Local Power image to find out more.
He also has spent many years working on his family's ranch, where he maintained an off-grid hybrid PV system.
Here are a few credentials:
