NABCEP Call for comments [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

Jeffery, see below:
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Wolfe, Global Resource Options" <jeff at globalresourceoptions.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 7:14 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...  
> A few years back, PGE tried to get into the residential PV market for themselves! They would love to bust our game and sell directly to the consumer. They were stopped by very active solar lobbying.                                                                                   > 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
> 
> =====
> Mo Rousso
> Urban Refuge, Inc. - A Solar Energy Company
> 760.451.9374 (v) 760.451.9784 (f) 760.845.8843 (c)
> mrousso at urbanrefuge.com
> www.urbanrefuge.com
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site
> http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
> 
> - - - -
> To send a message: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> 
> Archive of previous messages: http://www.topica.com/lists/RE-wrenches/
> 
> List rules & etiquette: http://www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/etiquete.htm
> 
> Check out participant bios: www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/index.html
> 
> Hosted by Home Power magazine
> 
> Moderator: michael.welch at homepower.com
> 
> - - - -
> To send a message: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> 
> Archive of previous messages: http://www.topica.com/lists/RE-wrenches/
> 
> List rules & etiquette: http://www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/etiquete.htm
> 
> Check out participant bios: www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/index.html
> 
> Hosted by Home Power magazine
> 
> Moderator: michael.welch at homepower.com
> 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

- - - -
To send a message: RE-wrenches at topica.com

Archive of previous messages: http://www.topica.com/lists/RE-wrenches/

List rules & etiquette: http://www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/etiquete.htm

Check out participant bios: www.mrsharkey.com/wrenches/index.html

Hosted by Home Power magazine

Moderator: michael.welch at homepower.com

==^^===============================================================
This email was sent to: michael.welch at homepower.com

EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Qcs.bz9JC9.bWljaGFl
Or send an email to: RE-wrenches-unsubscribe at topica.com

T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail!
http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register
==^^===============================================================