“Teach a 1000 Teachers”: A methodology for the rapid ramp-up of photovoltaics manpower required for India´s national solar mission

India´s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) envisages that 100,000 trained personnel will be needed by the solar industry in India. To achieve this, a rapid ramp-up methodology is required to first create trained teachers of solar energy courses. We have used a novel method to run a 2-week course on “Solar Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications”. Over 1200 teachers from 370 colleges and institutions across India attended the program at 35 “remote centers”. This paper describes this effort which simultaneously trained a large number of teachers, and generated palpable excitement for solar PV among educators.