Home Biz: Solar Energy Consultant
As a solar consultant, you can basically conduct a home inspection and give clients a report on their solar options for their particular home and site.
This can range from full-fledged general solar installations that generate electricity to simple solar walkway lighting.
You might want to start by working in a solar products company to become knowledgeable in the solar energy field.
However, to be a consultant, it is often best not to be affiliated with any one company or product and be able to recommend products and options across the field of solar energy.
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Aansa on June 1st, 2009 11:47 am
You will need experience, education and may require licence.
RedHotFranchises on June 1st, 2009 5:25 pm
It is best to start with a fundamental underestanding of energy and physics in general. You may want to consider a 101 level course in electronics / electricity and physics. Those will be the basis for building a knowledge base specific to green energy. If you are good in math, a fluid dynamics course would help too.
Jaclyn on June 2nd, 2009 1:28 pm
When being a solar energy consultant, I would think that just like everything else that is sold in the world, you would have one product/service in particular that you would often recommend to your clients as well as other options if they so choose to take a different avenue. But i would think it would be weird and hard not to have one product/service that you typically recommend.
Alternative Profits on June 19th, 2009 9:20 am
Solar energy consulting might be similar to many other small business consulting opportunities in many aspects, but if you are exploring this field, I think you should bear in mind that unlike many other businesses, alternative energy is a very fast changing business. It is quite similar to the computer industry some 25 years back, when things changed very fast.
Such a situation presents opportunities as well as threats. The early movers in this business could be able to build big businesses even when they start small, owing to the nascency. At the same time, the pace of change could mean that entrepreneurs could end up making the wrong choice because not everything is known about all the technologies. Even within solar, there have been a number of competing technologies (wafers, thin-film, concentrating PV, CIGS etc all these within PV and then you have solar thermal, which has many competing technologies on its own!)
I think one piece of suggestion for would-be entrepreneurs is to go into the market and talk to existing companies and professionals working in them. And read the latest that is happening in the market from books and blogs. At least you will not make the most obvious mistakes
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Ramakrishna on September 5th, 2009 10:59 am
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