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I am a civil engineer and work as a consultant. I am very interested in renewable energy field and I feel like taking up a job in this field. However, I have no past experience or knowledge about photovoltaics, solar energy etc. Can anybody please tell me if there are any online courses/workshops or books that I can use to be able to find a job in renewable energy related field? What kinds of educational degrees are required? If not a job, I would certainly like to assemble some gadgets all my myself. Thanks!

Bhairavi

I've seen a whole bunch of job postings on this site. Look up at the top of the page you'll see a link called 'Jobs'... hope that helps!

Thanks for that!

The question is I have no past experience in this field and would like to learn something through courses or workshops.. Is there anything that could help me do that?

Check out Solar Energy International: http://www.solarenergy.org/

They offer trainings.

The value of jobs in the renewable energy field is hard to calculate. In Nevada, it's been estimated that the use of distributed, roof-based solar panels hooked up to the commercial grid could create 10,000 jobs in 10 years. Here's a report: http://solartechtimes.com/?p=331