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Solar energy installations require a skill set all their own or, more accurately, a unique combination of several skills. A solar contractor is at once an electrician, plumber, and carpenter. Not that these aren’t highly specialized occupations. Both require a license. But that’s not all there is to a solar contractor.

Behind every good contractor is a good set of tools, and in the case of a solar thermal installer, that is a wide set of tools. It seems little attention is paid to the solar installer’s toolbox. I suppose sometimes we tend to think that a solar installer already knows better, but that is ignoring a whole new generation growing up with solar energy on the mind, in the classroom, and quite possibly as their best bet for a successful future.

Perhaps that’s what our good friends at Sun Volt Solar had in mind when they posted their comprehensive list of tools for the solar thermal installer. The highlights include everything from a claw hammer to a pipe wrench to a volt meter. For the full list, see the Sun Volt article here. And here’s to solar installers past, present, and future.

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Posted on May 19th in Solar Contractors by Dan.