President
PA Solar & Storage Industries Association (PASSIA)
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States
Ron Celentano – President, PASSIA and Celentano Energy Services
Ron Celentano is a solar energy industry consultant with Celentano Energy Services (CES). He started working in the solar energy field over 40 years ago, with nearly 30 years focused on solar PV. Generally, his experience covers technical and policy related fields, including system design, commissioning, testing, performance monitoring installation; project oversight representing the customer; expert witness regarding technical assessments of PV systems and products; installer/code official training, curriculum development, rebate program administration. He’s trained hundreds of solar PV installers, and has conducted many teacher workshops on solar PV curriculum development for secondary/HS education across PA, and presented many seminars to engineers/architects on the subject of solar energy technologies. He has also worked on solar PV projects in Africa and Central America, designed/oversaw installations, conducted diagnostics and trained installers. He has been involved with helping shape most all of Pennsylvania’s state laws and regulations in solar energy over the past two decades, including net metering, interconnection, PA’s solar share requirement, closing the borders and many other policy related issues. Currently, he is President of Pennsylvania Solar & Storage Industries Assoc. (PASSIA) and V.P. of Mid-Atlantic Solar & Storage Industries Assoc. (MSSIA) for Pennsylvania; Technical Director – Philadelphia Solar Energy Assoc. (PSEA), and he holds a BS in Physics and MS in the field of Mechanical Engineering.
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
1:30 PM – 1:55 PM ET