Training for the people who design, build, and service advancing energy systems
Energy technology is advancing quickly. The Academy is a structured, lab-based training system that helps technicians, supervisors, and engineers keep their technical judgment current through interactive labs, real service scenarios, graded decisions, and a professional certificate.
- Technical tracks by industry, for the people doing the work
- Leadership tracks for service managers and energy-transition leaders
Why keeping pace is harder than it used to be
Equipment advances faster than judgment can keep up
Every year brings new inverters, storage, controls, and communication layers. Training that only covers the basics leaves technicians unsure when they face equipment they have not seen before.
A wrong decision is expensive
When the right call is not obvious, guessing produces callbacks, extra parts, and safety exposure. Sound judgment protects the job, the customer, and the people doing the work.
Safety pressure grows as systems grow
Isolation, arc flash, and energy storage introduce new risks. The people who work on these systems need practice making safe calls before they are on the clock.
How the training works
- Step 1
Work a real service scenario
Each module opens on a job you would actually be sent to, with the symptoms, site conditions, and constraints you would really face in the field.
- Step 2
Commit to a decision and get graded
Safety, diagnosis, sequence, and checklist labs are marked against what the work actually requires. A safety failure is a failure, not a warning.
- Step 3
Review the practical reasoning
Every submission returns the evidence that mattered, the trap that could have led the wrong way, and the sharper path a seasoned technician would take.
- Step 4
Prove it on the four-stage capstone
One continuous 10.2 kW hybrid scenario with forced gates — safety, then diagnosis, then checklist, then sequence. Pass it and the certificate is issued.
What the training actually holds you to
Not claims about outcomes — the standard built into the track itself. You can check every one of these against the syllabus before you pay.
- 21 modules
- 32 lessons across four phases, each ending in work you can be graded on.
- 89 graded labs
- Safety, diagnosis, sequence and checklist labs marked against what the work requires.
- ~24 hours
- Practical work, not watch-time. There is no video you can leave running.
- 80% to pass
- A safety failure fails the lab outright. It is never averaged away by a good score elsewhere.
- 4-stage capstone
- One continuous 10.2 kW hybrid scenario with forced gates before the certificate is issued.
- Field documents
- The commissioning sheet and service report you produce are the ones you can use on the van.
Choose your path
Three jobs, three starting points. Pick the one that describes your week.
Field technical training
You work on the equipment. Start with an industry technician track — Solar is open now.
Lead a service team
You run technicians day to day. The Service Leadership pilot covers standards, placement, supervision, callbacks and the EcoService OS workflow.
Lead in the energy transition
You work across distributed energy, community solar, VPPs and regional coordination. Use the Energy Transition workshop package.
Technical programs
Built for the people who work on the equipment, and held to the same lab-based standard. Solar is open now; the remaining technical tracks are being written to the same bar.
Solar Technical Training
Sixteen modules of graded field work: isolate energy safely, commission to spec, and diagnose live PV, storage and hybrid systems without guessing.
HVAC Service Technician
Refrigeration circuit judgment, airflow and charge verification, controls and compressor failure analysis — held to the same standard of proof as the solar track.
Battery Storage Specialist
Hybrid architectures, BMS behaviour under load, thermal risk and defensible commissioning of storage assets.
EV Charger Service
Load management, earthing arrangements, OCPP fault interpretation and first-visit repair on public and residential chargers.
Appliance Repair Technician
Sealed systems, control board reasoning and the discipline behind a genuine first-visit fix rate. Delivered on FixGrid Academy, our appliance-repair property.
Industrial / Plant Maintenance
Rotating plant, permit systems, condition monitoring and shutdown work where the cost of being wrong is measured in lost production.
Leadership programs
Two leadership products. One family. Different jobs.
Service Leadership (pilot)
A pilot leadership layer for owners, service managers and supervisors: set the standard, place technicians honestly, supervise without micromanaging, cut callbacks, and run one service flow in EcoService OS.
Service Leadership in the Energy Transition
For leaders working across distributed energy, community solar and virtual power plants. Built for distributed energy markets worldwide, with regional focus pages for Kenya & East Africa, the United States, Australia, Asia and South America.
Service Leadership builds the managers who run high-competence field teams. Energy Transition Leadership builds the leaders coordinating distributed energy, community models, and cross-regional progress.
See inside a lab
The labs are the product. Rather than describe them, here is one from the track — playable right now, no account, no card.
Diagnosis lab
String inverter fault call
A 5 kW residential multi-MPPT string inverter logs 'Isolation resistance low' most mornings between 07:00 and 09:30, then runs normally all day. Production is down about 9% month over month. The roof is nine years old and the array has two strings. A previous visit has already told the homeowner the inverter needs replacing, and the quote is sitting in their inbox.
- 1
You are handed the call
The scenario is written the way dispatch would give it to you — symptoms, timing, site age, and nothing else. No hint about which answer is intended.
- 2
You commit to your checks
Pick the moves you would actually make on this visit. Every option is weighted: first-line checks score, time-wasters cost you, and defeating a protection setting fails the lab outright.
- 3
The grader answers back
You get the evidence that mattered, the trap that leads the wrong way, and the sharper path a seasoned technician would have taken — per option, not a single score.
Graded in your browser. Nothing is saved and no account is created.
Inside the Solar Technical Training program
The open paid program, and the one most technicians start with.
What the track prepares you to judge
- Walk a roof and a service panel and describe the whole system before touching a tool
- Run a site survey that the design team can actually build from
- Isolate DC, AC and battery energy safely, every time, with the right PPE and LOTO
- Commission a system to spec and prove it with measured, condition-corrected numbers
- Triage the faults that generate most service calls inside the first fifteen minutes
- Isolate advanced multi-symptom faults without shotgun parts replacement
- Run a professional service call from arrival to verified handover
- Close solar jobs cleanly in EcoService OS with defensible documentation
- Pass a full four-stage field assessment on a live hybrid system scenario
How the track is structured
Four phases, 21 modules. Each phase builds a layer of practical judgment, and every module ends with work you can be graded on. Open a phase to see its modules.
In their own words
We do not publish testimonials we cannot attribute. This section stays empty until graduates send quotes we are allowed to name — no stock photos, no invented ratings, no composite “typical students”.
Finished the track and happy to be quoted? Email support@ecopowerhub.ai.
Enrolment
How you get access depends on the program. Solar is a one-time purchase, the Service Leadership pilot runs at no charge, the Energy Transition package is open to view and facilitate, and membership adds ongoing support on top of any track you hold.
Training scope and safety
- The Academy provides technical training and instructional scenarios only.
- Completion does not constitute a professional license, electrical certification, or authorization to work on live electrical systems.
- Work on photovoltaic, battery, and electrical systems involves potentially lethal voltages and must only be performed by qualified persons, in accordance with applicable codes, regulations, and employer safety programs.
- Labs and materials are educational. The technician and their employer remain solely responsible for safe work practices, isolation, PPE, and compliance on actual jobs.
- EcoPowerHub AI / EcoService OS makes no warranty that completion of this training guarantees safe or correct field performance.
Enrolling from Kenya or East Africa? See EPRA T1 & T2 licence mapping and Kenya pricing — shilling estimates, company invoicing and which modules build each class.
New to the trade? Start with the global solar technician training guide — what the role involves, what you learn, and the certification path in your country.
Solar Technical Training
$997one time
The full Solar Technical Training program, every graded field lab, the four-stage capstone, and the certificate. Each track is purchased on its own and stays available for refresher work as systems evolve.
Enrol in the Solar trackNot sure yet? Play the sample lab first — it costs nothing and takes a few minutes.
Service Leadership (pilot)
Pilotno charge while in pilot
A pilot leadership layer for owners, service managers and supervisors: set the standard, place technicians honestly, supervise without micromanaging, cut callbacks, and run one service flow in EcoService OS.
View the pilotService Leadership in the Energy Transition
Workshopopen to view and facilitate
A short course for leaders coordinating distributed energy, community models and cross-regional progress. Read it online, or run it from the printable facilitator guide.
View the moduleTechnical Support Membership
$129/month
How technicians stay current as equipment and systems keep advancing: direct access to senior technical support and new advanced labs as they ship. One membership covers every track you hold, and cancels whenever you decide it has stopped earning its place.
Join the membershipPayments are processed by Stripe. You will be asked to sign in or create an account before checkout so your progress and certificate stay attached to you.
Enrolling a team
- 3–5 technicians — 15% off
- 6–10 technicians — 25% off
- 11+ technicians — 40% off
Each technician is enrolled on their own account so lab grades, capstone attempts and certificates belong to them. Request a team quote.
HVAC, battery storage, EV charging, appliance repair and industrial maintenance are in development — no pricing is published until a program opens.