Multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes
Two site survey assessment reports
During assessments, students will be required to demonstrate the following skills:
- Applying relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) and risk assessment and control procedures
- Identifying all relevant stakeholders and qualified personnel required to complete site survey
- Communicating effectively with clients to discuss:
- Requirements for site assessment and information to be collected
- Roles/responsibilities of people involved in design, installation and maintenance
- Industry standards, building/electrical regulations and codes and risk minimisation relevant to the installation
- Benefits and options of photovoltaic and battery storage systems and energy management
- Undertaking site survey safely and documenting findings including:
- Potential site hazards that may impact installation
- Site access, layout, distances and building structures
- Solar access and shading
- Gathering information about existing electrical installation and any existing energy generation elements
- Current energy usage including maximum power and energy demand
- Current and expected future energy generation needs including maximum power demand
- Working with qualified personnel as required to complete site survey
- Options for suitable photovoltaic generating systems
- Options for suitable battery storage systems
- Options for placement of system components, any restrictions or issues of concern
- Potential installation problem/s and recommend solutions
- Producing final site survey report
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- Relevant WHS/OHS requirements including:
- Risk assessment and mitigation processes
- Safe work method statements (SWMS)/job safety assessments or risk control processes prior to site visit
- Legislated requirements
- Roof access and working at heights
- Electrical safety
- Basic energy principles
- Relevant manufacturer specifications
- Relevant standards, building regulations and codes of practice
- Stakeholders, required personnel and roles and responsibilities of people involved in design, installation and maintenance
- Methods for identifying and recording existing electrical infrastructure
- Relevant local, state and commonwealth requirements
- Site survey process and information to be gathered, recorded and analysed
- Energy assessment and review including:
- Methods for discussing with client energy use patterns and future plans in energy use
- Methods for collecting energy usage and patterns
- Consideration of appropriate energy efficient appliances and technologies
- Data sources
- Energy services required by the electrical installation grid-connected photovoltaic systems including:
- Different equipment types, their componentry and configuration
- Factors that impact equipment type selection related to site and usage characteristics
- Basic design, installation and maintenance requirements
- Connection limitations, requirements
- Basic configuration of a PV array
- Environmental considerations and required approvals
- Grid-connected battery storage systems including:
- Methods of battery storage
- Fundamentals of battery storage
- Different energy storage technologies, associated componentry and system configuration
- Factors that impact equipment type selection related to site and usage characteristics
- Life expectancy
- Basic design, installation and maintenance requirements
- Basic operation of battery storage systems and integrated systems
- Installation considerations and requirements for grid-connected photovoltaic and battery storage systems
- Electrical diagrams for a RE system including:
- Functional block diagrams for typical grid-connected RE system configurations
- Architectural and site diagrams to show the locations of equipment, fittings and cabling
