#x201C;Teach a 1000 Teachers#x201D;: A methodology for the rapid ramp-up of photovoltaics manpower required for India's national solar mission

摘要

India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) envisages that 100,000 trained personnel will be needed by the solar industry in India. To achieve this, a rapid ramp-up methodology is required to first create trained teachers of solar energy courses. We have used a novel method to run a 2-week course on “Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications”. Over 1200 teachers from 370 colleges and institutions across India attended the program at 35 “remote centers”. This paper describes this effort which simultaneously trained a large number of teachers, and generated palpable excitement for solar PV among educators.