The European Union’s energy strategy sets specific targets for a sustainable growth during the coming decades, including reaching a 20% share of renewables in final energy consumption till 2020. To achieve that, a number of initiatives and measures have been in force. The favorable European policies as well as the Member States’ supporting legislations have resulted to high market growth for photovoltaics (PVs). However, the PV technologies’ application requires highly qualified technicians for PV installation, repair and maintenance. As national markets have been growing faster than the qualified PV installers force can satisfy, the appropriate training systems and certification schemes need to be developed in order to validate the competence of the installers and to ensure efficient and good functioning of installed PV systems. This is the scope of the European initiative PVTRIN, supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme of the European Commission, which focuses on the development of an appropriate training and certification scheme for technicians active in the installation and maintenance of small scale PV systems and sets the base for a mutual acknowledged certification scheme within Member States.
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