Many times the purpose of incorporating solar energy to our professional skills, scope of business or personal life has hovered in our head.

We have almost always run into the same barrier: time.

We are working or studying and we find it very difficult to have even a few hours a week.

It is rare to find training offerings that are not too short (few hours workshops) or too long (one or more years) and which in turn have an affordable price.

If we add the difficulty of having to move, because most are taught in presence, finally we ended up postponing again and again for this purpose.

In 2014 Sopelia gave, in collaboration with the Technology National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina), the Technical – Commercial Solar Energy Course in tele-learning (distance + presence) methodology.

In 2016 Sopelia updated and divided that training action in 2 Specific courses:

* Technical – Commercial Solar Thermal Energy

* Technical – Commercial Photovoltaic Solar Energy

Sopelia rode them on a Moodle 3.1 platform and the result is 2 courses in e-learning methodology.

This means you can receive Solar Energy training with the best market value wherever you are.

You only need a PC, Smartphone or Tablet and Internet.

These two courses provide technical and commercial training in solar energy domestic applications with the aim of spreading the technology and develop human resources for incorporation into work and business world.

You will identify the most relevant aspects of solar energy within the current energy landscape.

You will define, describe and analyze the most important features of solar energy.

You will know the composition, understand the operation, design and maintenance of facilities to implement thermal and photovoltaic solar energy projects.

It is a training aimed at students and technical careers graduates, technical schools graduates, engineers, architects, professionals and installers of related sectors (air conditioning, electricity, rural), people with experience in renewable energies, environmental professionals and individuals interested in incorporating solar energy into their lives.

The 2017 1st edition starts on April 18th and ends on June 30th.

You can register until April 15th inclusive in www.energiasrenovables.lat

If you are under 35 years old and live in Latin America, with the course completed, you can apply to be Sopelia Country Manager in your country of residence.

And if you are under 30 and live in Latin America, you can get a grant of 50% and finished the course, become Sopelia Trainee.

If you speak Spanish you have no excuses, Solar Energy wherever you are with Sopelia.

Si usted pertenece o representa a instituciones u organismos como los que se detallan a continuación, dispone de una beca solar para otorgar al / la beneficiari@ que el ente designe:

• Entidades académicas, educativas o de formación profesional

• Colegios o consejos profesionales

• Organismos gubernamentales de áreas medio ambiente y energías renovables

• Cámaras y asociaciones del sector energías renovables y medio ambiente

• Sindicatos, cámaras y asociaciones de los sectores electricidad y climatización

• Fundaciones con actividad en el sector medio ambiente

Para acceder a la beca solamente hay que difundir la formación e-learning solar de www.energiasrenovables.lat en los medios de comunicación habituales a través de los que la institución u organismo difunde este tipo de iniciativas.

Existe la posibilidad de recibir en metálico parte de la inscripción abonada por el/la alumn@ en caso de que la entidad beneficiaria de la beca esté abierta a una más estrecha colaboración.

Pueden enviarnos sus datos (nombre, correo electrónico, institución u organismo que representa) si desean ingresar como Invitado a la plataforma e-learning y tener acceso completo a la acción de formación.

Se trata de la formación en Energía Solar con la mejor relación calidad-precio del mercado.

Puede recibirse donde quiera que estés.

Solamente se necesita una computadora, smartphone o dispositivo móvil y conexión a Internet.

Esta acción de formación brinda capacitación técnico – comercial en aplicaciones domésticas de energía solar con el objetivo de difundir la tecnología y desarrollar recursos humanos para su incorporación al mundo laboral y empresarial.

La edición 2017 comienza el día 18 de abril y finaliza el día 30 de junio.

El plazo de inscripción es hasta el día 15 de abril inclusive en www.energiasrenovables.lat

La persona beneficiaria de la beca, si tiene menos de 35 años y vive en América Latina, finalizado el curso puede optar además a ser Country Manager Sopelia en su país de residencia.

Ya no tienes excusas, si quieres aportar tu rayito de sol para contribuir al desarrollo de la Energía Solar, tu partner es Sopelia.

The fact that large-scale renewable projects development started later in Latin America than in other locations, gives the region the possibility of adopting policies that have been successful in other places.

Contrary to what some may think the case of Spain is, in many ways, an example of what should not be done.

The country has only renewable native energy resources and an irrelevant carbon reserve.

Spain was the world leader in renewables and an important industrial, professional and services sector was created in the country.

Unfortunately, this development was not genuine or fruit of energy planning but the result of a custom deeply rooted in Spanish idiosyncrasy: “the pelotazo”.

Mess produced, common sense indicated to apply gradualism and long-term planning to at least preserve all that acquired know-how.

The government did the opposite.

Legal security was violated by sector regulation modifying and placed Spain on the podium of countries with most ICSID complaints.

It decreed a renewable moratorium, which has been going on for 7 years, causing small and medium-sized enterprises disappearance.

Only large companies with capacity to develop activity outside their borders survived.

In last 5 years, 1 renewable MW has not been installed.

In 2016, government has realized that it will most likely not meet European commitments made regarding renewables participation in its energy matrix.

The reaction has been to present an auction draft (made public last December 28th, Holy Innocents day) which shows, once again, the energy planning lack.

In the auction project:

* A Marginalist model is proposed in which the most expensive awarded price, fixed the one of previous awards.

This favors the appearance of proposals that will present reckless bid to be adjudicated and to obtain the most expensive price offered.

This criterion opposes the PAB (pay as bid), adopted in all successful international auctions.

* An Indeterminate Variable Price is proposed, a mathematical paranormal phenomenon that reflects State intervention in private activity and the total ignorance of renewable technologies operation by those who have drafted and in 2014 sanctioned the legislation that supports it.

This criterion also goes against the Fixed Cost Price per kWh offered , adopted in all international auctions that have obtained good results.

* A Technologically Neutral criterion is adopted instead of auctioning quotas for each renewable technology.

This is very dangerous because it leaves out younger technologies that now are less profitable than others, but could be more profitable in the future; as is the case of solar thermal in which Spain is the world leader.

It also goes against Technological Specification criterion, adopted in all the international auctions that have obtained good results in order to favor the renewable energy matrix diversification and several technologies development.

* There is no size discrimination. A portion of the auctioned amount is not reserved for plants under 10 MW.

* Prequalification is not required and there is no need for real projects.

It is an absurd and unreasonable proposal that turns renewable energy into a financial product and not into an energy policy tool that promotes employment and technological and industrial development.

It favors the macro projects and deepens energy sector concentration.

At international level auctions a low price concentration is taking place, with the consequent dominant position in few actors’ creation, which in long run will dilute the advantages of short term low prices.

Surely the auction will go ahead virtually unchanged and the 3000 MW will be awarded because after 7 years without business there is real desperation in the sector.

However, that auction is a success does not mean that all projects are going to materialize nor is it a guarantee that objectives will be fulfilled.

The explosive cocktail of Variable Indeterminate Price, legal uncertainty, huge initial investment, high financial leverage and yields even lower than 4% is very dangerous.

If it explodes, who will pay for the broken dishes of this irresponsible act ? We know the answer. Spanish citizens already had to “rescue” the bank sector and “compensate” energy sector.

The option of going outside auctions is not viable because in Spain there is no legislation that encourages or allows connectivity to set PPAs between private, but “Sun Tax”.

Renewable energies grid parity is already a reality in developed countries and in some developing countries.

If aid and subsidies received from fossil fuels had been withdrawn, it would have been much earlier.

If we consider auctions as the only tool to increase renewables participation, we will be keeping an obsolete energy matrix paradigm and making a very serious error.

The energy matrix of the future is based on 3 pillars:

1) Energy efficiency

2) Renewable energies

3) Distributed generation

Real energy revolution and citizen empowerment path goes through prosumer figure and energy cooperativism development.

Concentration and energy centralization route involves only changing fossils for renewables to maintain the “statu quo” for benefit of the usual suspects, who will continue to act as a collection agency in collusion with political power of turn.

Solar energy wherever you are with Sopelia.