PV Installer Certified Program [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

Dear Allan,
I hope you, Don, other wrenches and IPP members involved with NABCEP will
represent our unique perspective. I obviously do not speak for everyone, but
most of us want PV systems that are well designed, affordable, properly
installed, easy to operate and maintain and have a positive short- and long-term
effect on the environment. We recognize the need for education, training and
safety inspections, but do not want restrictive or exclusive programs or rules.
We practice PV as other professionals practice their trade and strongly resist
anything that makes our work more difficult and PV systems less affordable. Does
the certification program do all of the following:
1) serve the customer's needs (not the PV industry, bureaucracies, etc.)?
2) get more PV in use?
3) make PV better and cheaper (not one at the expense of the other)?
4) recognize the rights of the individual?
5) ???

Allan Sindelar wrote:

> Wrenches,
>      As you may be aware, I am considered a member of the technical
> committee of the NABCEP
> working group developing a national PV installer certification. I was added
> to the group because I
> attended a working group meeting in Albuquerque last summer. At the time I
> offered to represent the
> perspective of the wrenches, meaning existing independent installers, to the
> process.
>      I have done a very poor job since then. While the wrenches is not an
> organization per se, my
> goal was to stand up for the independent installing dealer, who somehow
> needs to be included in the
> development of a national standard to help RE prepare for a much bigger
> future. With the long hours of
> building our business, I have pushed this task to the back burner time and
> again. So now I throw myself
> on the mercy of the list (sorry-I'm being melodramatic) with a full apology
> for not doing much that I
> said I would, or thought I would. I welcome responses, advice, criticism,
> and rants about this, on- or off-
> list.
>      In a posting to follow I will offer my contribution on the topic of
> national certification. I had to
> put this part out to this group first. I have high respect for the function,
> makeup, and value of this forum.
> Allan at Positive Energy
>
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