Non wrenches [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

Random feedback.
1) UL's near monopoly in the U.S. is both an institutional barrier and a
facilitator to widespread PV growth.
2) American wrenches have a lot of  off-grid PV system design experience, but
check out the multitude of roof mount options in Photon magazine ads (German).
3) Some of the best novice PV installers are licensed electricians with
experience in custom home and light commercial wiring.
4) The electricians I hired to install 100 4 kW PV systems for a SMUD contract
knew a lot more about installing PV systems after they completed the project. I
hired them because they already had experience installing 100 systems for
Siemens on an earlier SMUD contract. Toward the end of the project, the 6-man
installation team could install two 4 kW systems a day - that were almost 20
miles from each other and the assembly warehouse.
5) Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and the City of L.A. has a goal of
100,000 PV systems (100 MW) by 2010. That's more than 1,000 systems a month if
we start now. Hopefully, the IBEW will end the PV lockdown in L.A. so we can get
to work and go for the goal.

"Bob Ellison, Alternative Energy Systems" wrote:

> It is hard enough to get the products that they use brought over here due to
> the sometimes unneeded BS that they have to be put through (read as UL and
> others). The standards are entirely different. If we could accept their
> certifications, that would help. I am afraid that unless we redid our entire
> nationwide power grid that the installers experience is probably not
> compatible, though they can beat us in experience hands down.
>
> Too bad.
> Bob
>
> RE. Ellison
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: Non wrenches [RE-wrenches]
>
> Experience counts. Last year Japanese wrenches installed 110 MW of grid-tied
> PV
> including 20,000 approx. 3 kW residential installations. German wrenches
> installed 75 MW of grid-tied PV. In just one year they did more than the
> total
> U.S. installed inspected PV systems. Aside from language differences, is
> there
> any reason why there are no German and Japanese wrenches on this list? What
> can
> we do to recruit input from Japanese and German wrenches?
>
> Dana Orzel wrote:
>
> > The dilemma of non wrenches and non wrench salesmen is based on lack of
> > installation and material selection experience. Experience teaches
> lessons.
>
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