NCFE · RQF Level 3
NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Preparing to Work in Renewable Energy Engineering
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits110
- Guided learning660 hours
- Units in this qualification20
Awarded by NCFE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NCFE registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Business operations in renewable energy organisationsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how a renewable energy organisation works
- Understand how external factors can affect the operation of a renewable energy organisation
- Understand legislation, regulation and other constraints that impact on the operation of renewable energy organisations
Electrical and electronic principlesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Determine voltage, current and resistance in direct current (DC) circuits
- Understand the concepts of capacitance in DC circuits
- Understand the principles and properties of magnetism
- Use single-phase alternating current (AC) theory
Electro, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and devicesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the legislation, regulations and safety precautions that apply when working with fluid power systems
- Know the construction and operation of fluid power devices and how they are represented as symbols in circuit diagrams
- Apply fluid power principles in the design of circuits
- Carry out maintenance, inspection, testing and fault-finding on fluid power systems
Energy efficiencyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand energy efficiency
- Understand energy improvements in the domestic and service sectors
- Understand energy efficiency in the industrial sector
- Understand energy efficiency in transportation
Energy from wasteReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of generating energy from waste
- Understand methods of generating energy from waste
- Know about facilities that generate energy from waste
- Understand the environmental impacts of generating energy from waste
Energy management in the renewable energy industryReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand renewable energy sources
- Conduct an energy analysis
- Carry out an energy management audit
Engineering projectReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Specify a project and choose a solution
- Plan and monitor a project
- Implement the project plan
- Present the project outcome
Environmental management within organisationsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand environmental management systems and policies
- Understand how to plan an organisation’s environmental improvement
- Understand the principles of organisational environmental compliance
- Understand how to support environmental good practice within organisations
Features and applications of electrical machinesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know the electrical hazards and legislation, regulation and standards relating to working with electrical apparatus
- Know about alternating current (AC) machines
- Know about direct current (DC) machines
- Know how electrical machine control circuits and systems operate
Health and safety in the renewable energy engineering workplaceReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of health and safety legislation and regulations relating to renewable energy engineering
- Identify and control hazards in the renewable energy engineering workplace
- Carry out a risk assessment and identify control measures
- Understand the methods used when reporting and recording accidents and incidents
Hydroelectric energy generationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential resources available for the generation of hydroelectric energy
- Know about different types of hydroelectric energy plants
- Know about hydroelectric energy generation systems
- Understand the generation of electricity from hydroelectric dams
Introduction to renewable energy engineeringReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for renewable energy
- Understand the forms of direct solar renewable energy
- Understand the forms of indirect solar renewable energy
- Understand the forms of non-solar renewable energy
- Understand the issues involved in the integration of renewable energy
Introduction to working in the renewable energy industryReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business components and roles of a renewable energy supply chain
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Understand how personal attitude and behaviours can impact on work performance
Mathematics for engineering techniciansReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Use algebraic methods
- Use trigonometric methods and standard formulae to determine areas
- Use statistical methods to display data
- Use elementary calculus techniques
Mechanical principles and applicationsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the effects of loading in static engineering systems
- Determine work, power and energy transfer in dynamic engineering systems
- Determine the parametres of fluid systems
- Determine the effects of energy transfer in thermodynamic systems
Quality management for the renewable energy industryReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of the term 'quality’ when used in a work-related environment
- Understand how the concept of quality has evolved
- Understand the key components of quality management
- Understand how quality principles can improve organisational performance
Solar energy generationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the distribution and effects of solar radiation
- Know about common types of solar energy generators
- Know about solar energy generation systems
- Know about the operation of solar farms
Tidal energy generationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the distribution and effects of tidal energy generation
- Know about types of tidal energy generators
- Know about tidal energy generation systems
- Know about the operation of tidal energy generation systems
Wave energy generationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know about waves and wave energy
- Know about types of wave energy generators
- Know about wave energy generation systems
- Know about wave farm operation
Wind energy generationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know about aerodynamics relating to wind energy and capture
- Understand meteorology and how it effects wind power generation
- Understand different types of wind turbine
- Know about wind turbine systems
- Know about wind farms
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Preparing to Work in Renewable Energy Engineering
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Business operations in renewable energy organisations
- Electrical and electronic principles
- Electro, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and devices
- Energy efficiency
- Energy from waste
- Energy management in the renewable energy industry
and 14 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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