Installer Certification [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

Allan:

I am a member of this committee and have been working with Jim Dunlop on the
requirements quite a while. I look forward to meeting you in a few days at
the meeting. It will be great to have you participating in the meeting.

Bill.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Sindelar [mailto:allan at positiveenergysolar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:06 AM
> To: New wrenches posting
> Subject: Installer Certification [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> 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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