A US master electrician deployed a solar-plus-storage project at a Pennsylvania trade school that students can take apart and rebuild every year for continued hands-on training.
Derek Mast, a Pennsylvania master electrician, has assembled – and is ready to disassemble – a training solar system at the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center. The purpose of the 6.4 kW solar-plus-storage system, said the installer and father, is to train the future.
Grants for workforce training from a local power company and the Lancaster County Career and Technology Foundation made the project possible.
The students laid the solar panels and racking in the grass, giving the young electricians easy access. There are two kinds of solar panels – leftovers from prior jobs, donated by Mast’s employer. He “would love to see companies” help a local school, it probably has enough “extra” gear in the warehouse to help as “educational institutions don’t need much to create a small system.”
Mast chose an inverter and battery respected among the solar do-it-yourself community — a refurbished EG4 6000XP. The inverter, combiner, battery, AC panel, and other components were also installed by the students as Mast watched and guided.
