SEEDS next Do-It-Yourself Solar PV Installation workshop will be at the Pike County Training Center on September 18 and 19th, 2025 from 7:00-9:00pm.  This beginner-friendly, event will teach you the basics of solar energy systems and walk you through designing and assembling he simple DIY setup. To register click here.

In March of 2024 SEEDS hosted a program on Agrivoltaics in cooperation with Penn State Extension’s Chelsea Hill. The recording can be viewed here.

Additional resources on Agrivoltaics:
Agrivoltaics and Large-Scale Solar
Agrivoltaics: What Does That Mean?

During summer of 2020 at the Highlights Foundation Conference and Retreat Center at Boyd’s Mills. A group of SEEDS and Highlights Foundation volunteers worked together to install a 33.3kW array on the roof of a building leased by the Foundation, next door to its Retreat Center in Milanville, Pennsylvania. The volunteer effort lasted for six days and involved the installation of the scaffolding, roof rails, optimizers, wiring, and the photovoltaic solar panels themselves. Overall, the project consisted of 90 roof-mounted, 370W solar panels, installed in 5 rows of 18 each. Read more about this project in our press release.

On June 13, 2018 our Do-It-Yourself Solar PV Installation Workshop was part of our volunteer project to install 8.4kW of solar PV on the Lacawac Sanctuary Visitor Center. The workshop slides are available in PDF format: Part 1 and Part 2.

If you’re curious about the payback on a solar project you can check out our Solar Costs and Savings guide for residential solar PV investment.