Horror Stories in time for Halloween [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

Bob, William, and Wrenches,

Do you want to hear a story that should scare the hell out of you for
Halloween?
The CEC reported today that they are receiving 300 Buydown requests a month
now!

Of those 300 systems to be installed each month, how many are being
installed by people that actually know what they are doing? Half? 75%? Okay,
I'll be generous and say 80%. That means 60 systems a month are going in
with half-baked and flat-out wrong designs and installations. How many
systems is it going to take to ruin the grid-tied business in California?
200? 1000? How many? Does this strike horror into anyone else out there?

Getting rid of the bad installations will save rebate funds, but how can we
tell the difference between a good installer and a bad one--very difficult
right now.

Bill.


-----Original Message-----
From: bob ollerton [mailto:lizard at mcleodusa.net]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:50 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]


Thats good.  I don't think you will find any disagreement on those goals.

But what we want are more good installers,  not fewer.  Certification is a
way to stack the odds in favor of someone being a good installer.

How do we keep this from becoming an old boys club, because frankly a lot of
talk here and other places sounds that way, no offense meant.

Once again, what we need are more good installers, dealers, sales people,
advocates.

There are tech companies advertising jobs that ask for 10 years experience
in a technology thats less than 3 years old...


bob.




----- Original Message -----
From: "William Miller" <wrmiller at slonet.org>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]


> Bob:
>
> I can't speak for the motivation of others, but I support certification
and
> licensing to promote higher quality installations.  I try to do only the
> best quality work--code compliant, sold and reliable, and I'd like my
> competition to be forced to so the same.  It is good for the industry and
> only fair to the customer.
>
> There will be a few that want cheap work, not good work, and if the shoddy
> contractors are deprived of much of their work, maybe they will find other
> employment.
>
> William Miller
>

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