Welcome to “Install Solar Home Energy Storage System with Bill Brooks”.

Are you ready for expanding your solar installation business to include home energy storage systems? Home energy storage system is transforming the solar industry to bring solar to the mass for global sustainability on our planet.

Do you know that the residential solar market is expected to surpass $1 billion in 2022. The residential segment for energy storage will continue its upward trend, beating its 2020 numbers by 6.5x in 2025 per Wood Mackenzie. Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events and warnings and outages related to winter storms has been key in motivating customers to purchase batteries.

You are about to start on a fun learning journey with Bill Brooks, Bill Brooks, Founder and Principal of Brooks Engineering LLC in California, is a renowned educator, independent code and standard expert, and writer in Solar industry. Riding through the solar coaster over the last 30 years, Bill Brooks has trained well over 15,000 electricians, PV system installers, building officials, and inspectors throughout the United States and aboard. The practical installation instructions and tips provided in this course will assist your daily installation jobs whenever you need them. Get ready, a new opportunity is lying in front of you.

Instructor Credentials

Bill Brooks, Founder and Principal of Brooks Engineering LLC in California, is a renowned educator, independent code and standard expert and writer in Solar industry.

Riding through the solar coaster over the last 30 years, Bill Brooks has trained well over 15,000 electricians, PV system installers, building officials, and inspectors throughout the United States and aboard. Bill Brooks was called one of the godfathers of solar engineering. But he would rather call himself an ambassador for solar technology. His articles have been featured on many top solar media such as Solar Power World, Photon, etc. Bill Brooks is also the consultant for leading solar companies in the world.

Bill Brooks is a renowned solar expert for national electrical code and standards. He is an active participant on many codes and standards panels including Code Making Panel 4 of the National Electrical Code, UL1703, UL1741, UL2703, and UL9540 Standards Technical Panels, and IEC TC82 Working Groups 3 and 6. Bill Brooks is a member of the California Office of the State Fire Marshal’s (Cal Fire) PV Task force that developed the Solar Photovoltaic Installation Guideline, which became the model for national regulation.

Bill Brooks is proliferated writer. He has written several important technical manuals for the industry that are now widely used throughout the United States and beyond. His publications include the Expedited Permit Process for PV Systems, the Field Inspection Guidelines for PV Systems, and the Field Guide for Testing Existing Photovoltaic Systems, as well as many articles in solar and inspector magazines.

Bill Brooks helped facilitate the development and expansion of domestic and international markets for PV systems for the past 30 years. He developed inverter eligibility requirements for California and managed the eligible inverter list for 8 years for the California Energy Commission. He also developed permitting and inspection guidelines used widely throughout the United States to streamline the process and reduce the soft costs of implementing PV systems.

With his experience of designing, installing, and evaluating grid-connected PV systems, Bill Brooks’ consulting work focuses on: a) Field troubleshooting. His field troubleshooting skills have been valuable in determining where problems occur to focus training on those issues of greatest need. And b) Training installers and inspectors on implementation issues such as code compliance and code enforcement.

Bill Brooks lives on his beautiful ranch in Vacaville, California, where these training videos were taken.

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