Solar Canada teaches and administers examinations. It does not issue credentials, and it is careful about the difference, because the difference is what makes a credential worth having.
There are fewer providers authorized to administer NABCEP examinations in Canada than there are provinces. That scarcity is the reason we exist, and it is also a responsibility: a testing centre that bends toward its own students degrades the credential for everyone who holds it.
An organization that both teaches candidates and decides whether they pass has an unmanaged conflict, and the internationally recognised rules for certifying people treat that arrangement as a threat to impartiality on its face. The cleanest answer is a bright line: training on one side, certification decisions on the other, with no shared interest in the outcome. We are on the training side of that line, and we say so on every page where it could possibly matter.
The company is based in Newmarket, Ontario, and that is the address in NABCEP’s provider directory. Both PV Associate courses run entirely online, which means a student in Lagos, Lima or Lahore sits the same course as a student in Ontario. Classroom and in-person examination delivery can be arranged in Canada on request. Live online and self-paced delivery reaches the rest of the country, which for a training business in Canada is most of it.
Telephone 1 (800) 373-7097. Email [email protected]. Enrolment is on the enrolment form and does not require a call first.
NABCEP® and the NABCEP certification marks are the property of the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners, Inc. Solar Canada is an authorized NABCEP Registered Exam Provider and is not otherwise affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for NABCEP. References to NABCEP credentials on this site describe the credentials themselves and are not a claim to hold or confer them. CSA standards referenced are the property of the Canadian Standards Association.
BPI and the BPI certification marks are the property of the Building Performance Institute, Inc. Solar Canada is a BPI Test Center, authorized under agreement with BPI to administer BPI certification examinations, and is not otherwise affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for BPI. BPI does not approve, accredit, endorse or recognise training, and no course offered by Solar Canada or by any other provider is approved or accredited by BPI. BPI sets, delivers and scores its own examinations and determines candidate eligibility. References to BPI credentials on this site describe the credentials themselves and are not a claim to hold or confer them.
We are an authorized NABCEP Registered Exam Provider, which is an authorization to administer examinations properly. That is a different thing from being an accredited certification body, and we do not describe ourselves as one.
No. NABCEP writes, delivers and scores its examinations. The centre provides the room, the identification check and the proctoring.
Solar Canada sits within a wider group of Canadian energy businesses. Its training and examination operations are run on their own terms, and exam administration is not influenced by any other part of that group.
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