Upcoming Events and Classes

Look below to see what’s coming up each month.  Click on the links to register!

GET TRAINED AS A SOLAR INSTALLER!! HPCSI’s fourth Solar Installation Training Class finished in June 2024. Our next class will early October 2024 - stay tuned on the start date. Furthermore, this fiscal year (’24-’25) we will be running 3 solar classes - a fall course October-December, a winter course with Spanish language translation available January-March, and a spring course April-June. Each course is 10 weeks long, meets Tues and Thurs evenings 6-8pm, and will graduate students OSHA 10 certified and job site ready to join a solar installation crew. We are currently accepting applications for our fall class – go to bit.ly/hpsolartrainingclass1

If you belong to a house of worship or other faith-based non-profit (such as a school), we invite you to consider solarizing your property through Solar Faithful (www.solarfaithful.org). Solar Faithful has an investor based model that allows faith-based non-profits to solarize for $0 upfront cost, guarantees savings of at least 10% against standard utility rates and provides free repairs and maintenance for the duration of the arrangement, offers ownership of the panels for free after 25 years, and allows the non-profit to buy out of the arrangement and own the panels at any point. Solar Faithful uses local installers, meaning local jobs - and we will be prioritizing work opportunities in these projects for our HPCSI solar class graduates. Check out Solar Faithful’s website or contact us at hpcsiphilly@gmail.com to learn more.

HPCSI is working on an exciting solar sharing project. HPCSI is working in partnership with First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG) and One Hope Community Church in Hunting Park to build a 27.2 kW solar array on One Hope. With this solar array, we will share power with One Hope, another HP non-profit, and 3 low-income HP homeowners. We are fully fundraised and are currently working in consultation with a legal team on the best approach for effectively implementing our model. Upon proof of concept, we hope to outsource the idea so that communities throughout PA can use it themselves.