Four SEI instructors team up to form nonprofit Remote Energy

Solar Energy International (SEI) is excited to announce the formation of Remote Energy, a new 501(c)3 for-impact organization. Remote Energy was started by four SEI instructors: Carol Weis, Brad Burkhartzmeyer, Chris Brooks and Jason Lerner – with one of their board members being SEI’s former international director, Laurie Stone. Recently SEI hired Remote Energy to ...

By |2017-11-21T20:06:54-07:00November 21st, 2017|Categories: Developing World|Comments Off on Four SEI instructors team up to form nonprofit Remote Energy

Rural Renewable Energy Alliance and SEI partner to teach a Liberian technician training

The following is a guest blog post submission from Carol Weis, former SEI staff member and co-founder of Remote Energy, who recently completed a training with the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance. In October 2017, Solar Energy International (SEI) taught a 2-week intensive battery-based class, partnering with Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL) at their facility in ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:24-06:00November 20th, 2017|Categories: Battery-Based, Charitable Programs, Developing World, Solar Training (Electric)|Comments Off on Rural Renewable Energy Alliance and SEI partner to teach a Liberian technician training

Help support a solar-powered radio station in Tanzania

In 1997, Lukas Kariongi was an eager young Maasai from East Africa who traveled to Solar Energy International (SEI) for solar energy training. At SEI, he began his life-changing training to be a solar technician as a tuition-funded scholarship student. When Lukas first began his SEI journey back when the campus was based in Carbondale, ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:24-06:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Charitable Programs, Developing World, Solar Training (Electric)|Comments Off on Help support a solar-powered radio station in Tanzania

SEI’s solar energy training impacts projects around the world

Lessons learned at Solar Energy International (SEI) can be life-changing for students who take our solar energy training both online and in-person at our campus in Paonia, Colorado. In the case of SEI alum, Estevan Figueroa, the impact of SEI classes will spread across the world as he takes what he learned in PV301L: Solar ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:25-06:00October 17th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Battery-Based, Developing World, Solar Training (Electric)|Comments Off on SEI’s solar energy training impacts projects around the world

Alumni Highlight: Students Terry and Bill Jackson prepare for an install in Sudan in Paonia lab classes

Students gleefully huddled around the lab yard’s steep roof mounted solar system smiling for photos as the Solar Energy International (SEI) banner whipped in the wind in the background. Cameras flashed as photos abound and the soft crunch of wood chips enveloped the lab yard as the class scattered, certificates-in-hand, to say their final goodbyes: ...

By |2021-06-17T10:33:47-06:00October 9th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Alumni Highlight, Developing World, Solar Training (Electric)|Comments Off on Alumni Highlight: Students Terry and Bill Jackson prepare for an install in Sudan in Paonia lab classes

SEI Instructor Empowers Students

Solar Energy International has worked since its inception in 1991 to empower people with training in renewable energy. Entering the industry in a country where solar was just getting off the ground, SEI Instructor Karo Fernandez understands the power of passing on knowledge in solar, and the endless opportunity that comes along with access to ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:28-06:00March 21st, 2017|Categories: Developing World, eNewsletter, Programa Hispano|Comments Off on SEI Instructor Empowers Students

Sudanese Student Invigorates SEI’s Mission

It is stories like the one of Eissa Ali, that galvanize the work of SEI. Eissa is from Khartoum, Sudan where he and his wife are raising two children. His background is in electrical engineering and he’s built a career in the green building industry. He is a talented professional who will do great things ...

By |2021-06-17T10:43:52-06:00February 28th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Charitable Programs, Developing World, eNewsletter, Student Highlight|Comments Off on Sudanese Student Invigorates SEI’s Mission

Solar Energy International (SEI) responde a la Prohibición de Viajar (Travel Ban) de Estados Unidos con un Programa de Becas

A todos los Alumnos Internacionales de SEI, Futuros Estudiantes y Amigos: Las acciones y anuncios hechos recientemente por la nueva administración de Estados Unidos sobre de la prohibición de viajar, la construcción de paredes en las fronteras,  han sido noticias muy perturbadoras para nosotros porque impactan directamente en la relación que construimos con ustedes. Ya ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:33-06:00February 8th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Charitable Programs, Developing World, eNewsletter, Programa Hispano|Comments Off on Solar Energy International (SEI) responde a la Prohibición de Viajar (Travel Ban) de Estados Unidos con un Programa de Becas

Solar Energy International (SEI) Responds to U.S. Travel Ban and Refugee Targeting with Scholarship Program

To SEI's International Alumni, Future Students, and Friends, The recent actions taken and announcements made by the new U.S. administration concerning travel bans, building border walls, and targeting refugees have been deeply upsetting to us because these actions directly impact our relationship with you. As the status of these policies are quickly evolving, we rightly ...

By |2020-10-21T13:36:33-06:00February 6th, 2017|Categories: Alumni, Charitable Programs, Developing World, eNewsletter, Solar Training (Electric)|Comments Off on Solar Energy International (SEI) Responds to U.S. Travel Ban and Refugee Targeting with Scholarship Program

Solar Energy International (SEI) Spanish Program Job Opportunity – Marketing and Communications Assistant

SEI is excited to be hiring a NEW position to our growing Spanish training program. The Spanish Program at SEI was founded in 2013 to provide solar PV training for Spanish speakers within and outside the US, namely Latin America. The SEI Marketing and Communications Associate (MCA) is responsible for implementing the strategy around the ...

By |2016-09-27T08:56:58-06:00September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Charitable Programs, Developing World, eNewsletter, Programa Hispano|Comments Off on Solar Energy International (SEI) Spanish Program Job Opportunity – Marketing and Communications Assistant