African Utility Week Discount
Everyone how registers and/or pays for a maxx I solar academy course during the African Utility week will get the 15% AUW discount. Registration for upcoming solar courses
Stronger than ever: The maxx and IBC Solar Network
2017 started with big changes and opened a whole lot of new opportunities for academy and alumni By founding a joint venture with our German supplier IBC Solar, maxx-solar academy has won a new and even stronger partner in the PV industry. With IBC Solar's influence [...]
Alumni Meetings Continue
New name, improved concept. The first alumni meetings, now under the name IBC Solar Training & Networking Event take place on 4th May in Johannesburg and Cape Town. As many of our alumni especially appreciate maxx' connection to the PV industry, we have decided to assign [...]
Solar PV Assessment
SAPVIA and GreenCape invite PV installers to join the voluntary PV installation assessment, 18 – 19 April 2017 in Cape Town, at SARETEC. Installers successfully completing the assessment will receive a Certificate from maxx-solar academy and SAPVIA and will qualify to be part of a SAPVIA [...]
Now in Zim: Let’s do solar together!
The maxx-solar academy is now in Zimbabwe. In South Africa, the maxx-solar academy has already trained more than 1500 participants. Now the maxx-solar acacemy trainings are also available in Zimbabwe and on the 16th and 17th of February the first course will take place. Dave and [...]
About Solar Energy and the Importance of Training
Unreliable power supply, scattered settlement without grid-access, increasing electricity costs are daily struggles in Zimbabwe. Not good for the economy but great opportunities for solar! Also, Zimbabwe receives twice as much solar energy as Germany. If you have a look at the map, the regions around [...]
Sunrise Intermediate Course in Namibia
8 Namibians already participate in the first Sunrise Intermendiate Course in Namibia in October 2016. The next trainings are offered in March and May 2016. The Participants especially liked that they "learned all basics of PV" and that they "got a comprehensive introduction in the world [...]
Learn how to Engineer PV Systems
Register for both courses and become a DGS Solar Power Designer. The Sunrise Intermediate Course forms the first 2 days of the Solar Power Designer Course. Please register now for both courses to: Perform site surveys, Consult your customers to design the right PV system, Design [...]
Press Release – New maxx I solar academy successfully launched in Namibia
New Walvis Bay based maxx-solar academy successfully launched On 9th November, Thuringian Minister of Economy cut the red ribbon and officially opened the maxx-solar academy Namibia at the Windhoek Country Club. Mr. Wolfgang Tiefensee, Thuringian Minister of Economy, Mr. Ulrich Kinne from the German Embassy in [...]
Press Release – Relaunch of the maxx-solar academy Cape Town
Press Release 14 November 2016 Relaunch of the maxx-solar academy Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille and Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, Freestate of Thuringia, Germany inaugurated today the maxx-solar academy in cooperation with SARETEC The maxx-solar academy was established in 2011 by the German Solar [...]