GSES is pleased to announce that they have signed a partnership agreement with The University of the South Pacific (USP) Pacific TAFE. Under this agreement USP Pacific TAFE will be offering three courses:
- Grid Connected PV Systems – Design and Install
- Off-Grid (Stand Alone) Power Systems – Design and Install
- Battery Storage Systems for Grid Connected PV System – Design and Install
Mr Sandip Kumar will be the initial tutor for the USP Pacific TAFE solar courses. Mr Kumar is a Suva-based trainer hired in 2018 who has been working as part of GSEStraining and supporting the Sustainable Energy Industry Association of Pacific Islands (SEIAPI) in the role of secretariat.
This partnership arrangement is the initial stage of a larger project aiming at establishing a new Sustainable Energy Training Centre at the USP Pacific TAFE Suva campus. GSES Director International Training and SEIAPI Executive Officer, Mr Geoff Stapleton is working to secure funding for the centre. Mr Stapleton is working with other countries to identify potential practical trainers that can provide the practical training components of the course in-country. USP has 14 campuses located throughout the Pacific.
GSES is a partner of Exemplary Energy in designing the domestic solar PV system used in our EWEI and our applying it to develop the flat-plate solar (mostly PV) XMYs we presented at the APSRC 2021 and continue to market. Geoff Stapleton is a long-term friend of our Executive Director, Trevor Lee, and is one of the ISES directors from Australasia. He also convened the Solar Pioneers reunion in Sydney in March 2022 at which Trevor gave a presentation on the first quarter-century development of ISES in Australasia and on the 1995 editions of “Solar Progress” magazine of which he was then the editor.