The Clean Energy Institute of GPEKS delivers various self-paced renewable energy project feasibility analysis courses that expand from RETScreen material:

• Register | Login  CE101 - Energy Efficiency
• Register | Login  RS110a - Solar Air Heating
• Register | Login  RS120a - Solar Water Heating
• Register | Login  RS130a - Solar PV
• Register | Login  RS140a - Passive Solar Heating
• Register | Login  RS150a - Small Hydro
• Register | Login  RS160a - Wind Energy
• Register | Login  RS170a - Geothermal Heat Pump
• Register | Login  RS180a - Biomass Heating
• Register | Login  RS190a - Combined Heat and Power

A new French self-paced project feasibility analysis course: "RS130f - Analyse de faisabilité de projets photovoltaïques" will be offered as of October 1st, 2010 and is now open for enrollment. Participants will be introduced to the knowledge and tools required to enable stakeholders to decide whether or not to proceed with a potential clean energy project. In a 30-day online course, participants will learn about:

• the opportunity/risk factors of clean energy projects, including technical, technological, environmental, financial, organizational and regulatory;
• the most appropriate technologies, types of systems and design options given various needs and situations;
• the use of RETScreen to evaluate the energy production, life-cycle costs and greenhouse gas emissions reduction for a clean energy solution;
• the elements of a pre-feasibility study based on a case study and a project feasibility analysis methodology template.

There is no facilitator feedback or team work involved in these self-paced courses. Knowledge is evaluated via three multiple choice exams. Differences between the self-paced and certificate version of a course are detailed here.

Note that our English self-paced project feasibility analysis courses on Renewable Energy are recognized by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).
AEE members with a 70% overall average will be eligible to receive a certificate of completion as well as 1 CEU / 10 PDHs from AEE.

For course cost, request information.

The new self-paced course: "CE101 - Energy Efficiency with RETScreen" is open for registration. If you are already registered, login into the CE101 course.