General topics and schedule:

• overview of course
• electricity basics how a PV panel works
• setting a battery to a load
• measuring voltage, current and resistance
• setting a PV panel to drive a load

Notes for class:

Small PV installation workshop

Reading

For pre-reading assignements, I suggest so far:
Most blog posts on Green Empowerment blog, especially:

• http://www.greenempowerment.org/blog/?p=1197 (El jocote, solar water pumping & health survey)
• http://www.greenempowerment.org/blog/?p=1184 (domestic solar power in Peru)
• http://www.greenempowerment.org/blog/?p=1178 (Borneo, micro-hydro electricity - video)
  

Also, the following related videos and web sites:
Ram pump installation (July 2010) in the Philippines:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtm2FBiOfY
• http://goo.gl/I7IWS

Video about the El Jocote, Nicaragua water project

• http://goo.gl/aZWWy

Check out the web-pages of the partners for Green Empowerment:

• BGET: http://www.bget.org/ in Thailand
  
• SIBAT in the Philippines: http://www.sibat.org
• http://www.asofenix.org in Nicaragua
• http://www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/english.php
• AIDFI in the Philippines: http://www.aidfi.org/

Assignment

Go through the presentation and get to the slides about sizing photovoltaics for a particular load. Pick a spot anywhere, and create a calculation for the size of solar panels needed to match the daily solar energy available.