Installer Certification [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

One additional posting from Mark Fitzgerald on background and history, that
I missed in my preceding post:

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Fitzgerald <markfitz at ispq.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: Invitation: Albuquerque, Certification


> Allan:
> Jim Dunlop will provide all of the resource information for the
> meeting. As for history/info, I'll give you a short summary.
>
> This project started in 1995, at a meeting sponsored by the
> Rockefeller Brothers Fund. A finance guy mentioned to me that he
> would like to support PV/solar, but could not if there was no way to
> qualify the installation/maintenance practitioners who would get the
> money or who would be contracted to do the work. He said that, if
> there was an industry-acknowledged certification, it would make it
> easy for him to provide financing.
>
> Several months later, I left NREL to start ISP to begin the work of
> developing and coordinating a global set of consensus knowledge and
> skills competencies for practitioner certification. Most of the work
> to date has been in developing countries, but the on-going work in
> the US (first meetings here in 1997, with the initial work with FSEC
> and others on task analyses, etc., in 1998) picked up additional
> support and interest over the last year with the growing demand
> brought out by state buy-down programs and the energy issues in
> California. In the last year, interested stakeholders have come
> together to formalize the effort, including the development of the
> technical certification committee (chair, Jim Dunlop, FSEC), the
> accreditation committee (chair, Jerry Ventre, FSEC), and the Advisory
> Board (chair, Terri Walters, NREL). FSEC took on most of the critical
> initial work of refining the task analyses and working on the exams.
> Now, these will go to the committee for further development,
> improvement, and approval.
>
> There were initial meetings in Washington, in April, of the
> committees and the board. These meetings led to the efforts that will
> be the focus of the Albuquerque meetings. And, these meetings will be
> followed by another set of meetings in Sacramento, on September 30.
>
> I hope this information is useful. Please let Jim know if there is
> any additional information you need.
>
> See you next week, and, thanks again for your interest.
> Mark


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