How we teach, and what we will not sell you.

You can read this as a sales page if you like, but it is mostly a list of commitments that are easy to check and awkward to break.

1. Prices are on the site

Every course, every figure, in Canadian dollars, on one page. Almost nobody in this market publishes theirs, because an unpublished price can be adjusted to the customer. Ours cannot, which occasionally costs us money and is the point.

2. Taught in build order, with the arithmetic worked live

Fundamentals and safety, then design, then installation, then operations and maintenance. Not alphabetically, not by chapter, in the order a real system gets built, because that is the order in which one thing explains the next.

And the calculations get worked on screen rather than presented finished. Watching somebody reach a wrong number, notice it and find the sign error is worth more than a clean example, which is why we do it that way even though it looks less polished.

3. Examination seats are open to everyone

A seat here costs the same, on the same dates, whether you trained with us or with a competitor, and the booking form does not ask. That is not generosity — it is the minimum condition for a training provider to be trusted near an examination. Why that separation matters →

4. What we refuse to sell

• A pass guarantee. NABCEP writes, delivers and scores the examination. Any provider promising you a result is promising something it does not control.
• Leads, territories or licences. Nothing in any programme is contingent on buying something else afterwards.
• A course you do not need. If you already install solar and your gap is examination technique, we will tell you to buy the $210 question bank instead of a $1,575 course, and we would rather say it before you pay than after.

Who we are

Solar Canada is a NABCEP Registered Provider, number PVARTP-0877, for the Photovoltaic Associate programme, and an examination provider authorised to administer the sitting. Based in Newmarket, Ontario; courses run online and are open worldwide. You can verify the status independently in NABCEP's own provider directory rather than taking our word for it. More about the status →

What we are honest about being short of

Everything currently runs online; in-person classes are arranged by region once enough people want the same dates. Our published course calendar is thinner than we would like. And the site carries no photographs of real classes yet, because the only alternative was stock photography and we would rather show you drawings than pretend.

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