NABCEP & Training [RE-wrenches]

[Tom Lane, Energy Conservation Services]

NABCEP will never allow anyone to get around the licensing requirements for
their state. However, there is no doubt it will be useful training for those
licensed contractors who have the time and want to be educated as to the
unique issues  involved in site selection and technical or electrical
installation. I hope no one  thinks any amount of real life experience or
NABCEP training  will short circuit state licensing requirements. I
appreciate what the wrenches like BOB -O and others are doing. I love to
acquire new training, when I have the time and money . I feel everyone is
making too big a deal out of NAPPY  unless Chuck is right and it becomes a
bureaucratic gatekeeping nightmare to get grants, tax credits, and must be
necessary to  participate . Hopefully there are good wrenches aboard, and
are not going to let this happen.
Gator Tom

Original Message -----
From: "Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection" <econnect at snowcrest.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: NABCEP & Training [RE-wrenches]


> Jeff, ETAL,
> BINGO! You nailed it. Enter NABCEP and the Certified Solar PV
> Installer. He/she will require both training and experience to sit
> for and to pass the test. Granted that each state should have such a
> license class. Hasn't happened, likely won't happen, and if it DID
> happen, the IBEW and JATC would control it in more states than you
> want to think about. At that point, the independent RE Wrenches in
> that state could bend over and kiss their PV goodbye. I've got
> nothing against the unions, they have their role to play, but when
> ANY organization gets that much control, it will wield it to the
> benefit of their brotherhood. By definition, that means exclusivity.
> Then there is the whole power corrupts thing.
>   Far better, IMO, to get behind a national cert NOW before it gets
> out of our hands. That way, when/if states not having a PV license
> class get around to it, they are FAR more likely to accept a national
> cert even if only on a grandfather basis. YA think?
> Best, Bob-O
>
> >The bottom line is that being a licensed electrician and understanding
> >the NEC does not make you a solar installer, and being a solar
> >installer does not mean you understand the NEC.  This field requires
> >both training and experience.
>
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