NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]

bob ollerton lizard at mcleodusa.net
Sun Oct 27 19:51:14 PST 2002


I agree.

I wonder if these entrance requirements are really meant to keep this an
exclusive (social?) club.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffery Wolfe, Global Resource Options"
<jeff at globalresourceoptions.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:14 PM
Subject: RE: NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]


> Mo,
>
> It's exactly these "barriers to market penetration" that I worry about. I
> think we are all caught in the place of wanting ALL of the following
goals:
> 1.  Great enlargement of the solar industry.
> 2.  Making a buck or two.
> 3.  Making sure that the industry has enough standards and workmanship
that
> it does not get a bad name, thus defeating goals 1 and 2.
>
> I am a firm believer that we can all make more money by making the pie
> bigger. My concern is that goal 3 is superceding goals 1 and 2. It really,
> in my mind, is subservient to goals 1 and 2. Mind you, I am not saying
that
> safety, quality and workmanship are unimportant. They absolutely are.
>
> So we can't succeed at goals 1 and 2 without 3, but we can't set the level
> of 3 so high that it blocks 1 or 2.
>
> The electric utilities and others in the conventional energy industry
would
> like nothing more than to have us create such high barriers to PV
> installation that it remains a small industry.
>
> Jeff W.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrousso at urbanrefuge.com [mailto:mrousso at urbanrefuge.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:19 AM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: RE: NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]
>
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> ......clip
>
> The majority of firms that I compete against have
> never heard of SEI or this list.  They operate in a
> technical vacuum and are only driven by dollar signs.
> If we can create mechanisms that make it difficult for
> any Joe Shmoe to enter this industry (or as Peter
> Drucker would say "create barriers to market entry"),
> then perhaps they would look for other avenues to
> expoit.
>
> ........clip
>
> Mo
>
> =====
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> Urban Refuge, Inc. - A Solar Energy Company
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