Course Description
Kazakhstan holds roughly 1,150 MW of operating solar capacity and is auctioning its way toward 10 GW of renewables by 2030. The engineering question has shifted from whether to build to whether what was built will still perform in year fifteen — because a solar plant's economics are decided by yield, availability and degradation, not by installed capacity.
This course develops full-lifecycle solar PV capability. Participants learn the solar resource and its assessment, PV technology and module behaviour, plant architecture including inverters and balance of system, energy yield modelling and losses, plant design and layout, construction and commissioning, operations and maintenance strategy, performance monitoring and degradation, and the grid connection requirements that determine whether a plant can deliver what it generates.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Assess the solar resource and its variability
- Compare PV technologies and understand module behaviour
- Design plant architecture: inverters, balance of system, layout
- Model energy yield and quantify losses
- Manage construction and commissioning
- Build an operations and maintenance strategy
- Monitor performance and assess degradation
- Address grid connection and compliance requirements
How the course is delivered
The course combines solar engineering with yield modelling, design and O&M exercises using realistic plant configurations and climate data. Participants work through loss analysis, performance assessment and maintenance strategy.
The programme addresses the full lifecycle from resource to degradation, reflecting that solar assets are financed on twenty-year yield assumptions that engineering must actually deliver.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Engineers in solar project development and delivery
- O&M and asset managers of solar plants
- Utility and IPP technical staff
- Investors and lenders assessing solar projects
- Anyone building or operating solar PV
Daily programme
- The solar resource and its assessment
- Irradiance data and uncertainty
- PV cell and module technology
- Module behaviour, temperature and degradation
- Plant configuration and layout
- Inverters: central, string and topology choice
- Balance of system: cabling, transformers, structures
- Trackers and their trade-offs
- Energy yield modelling
- Loss mechanisms and the loss tree
- Design optimisation
- Bankability and yield uncertainty
- Construction management
- Quality during installation
- Commissioning and performance testing
- Handover and acceptance
- O&M strategy: preventive, corrective, predictive
- Cleaning, vegetation and site management
- Performance monitoring and PR analysis
- Degradation, grid compliance, workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
