Ayrton
That is the intent of net metering, you sell your excess back to the grid.
John, I do think an introductory course in solar PV would be fairly easy to put together, just the basic theory along with the code issues and some introduction to the materials and practices. Getting deeper into it would probably require some vendor input but I bet the manufacturers would love to get exposure to their products.
I know public and union education crawls along at a snail's pace, taking years to learn something but I am used to "fire hose" schools (Navy and IBM) where they might give you everything you need to know about something like this in less than 80 hours.
