NABCEP: Happy with the testing, disappointed with the name. [RE-wrenches]

Jeff Clearwater, Village Power Design clrwater at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 23 12:29:34 PST 2003


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Hi David,

"Certified PV Installer" is on the logo we use, as I understand it. 
Though most don't know what PV is.

Perhaps we could suggest "Certified Solar Installer" or "Certified 
Solar Electric Installer"?

Jeff C.
Village Power Design


>Wrenches,
>I'm pleased to have taken and passed the test. However I'm not real happy
>about the name. I've talked to several installers and all of my customers
>over the past few months and there is universal dismay with the name NABCEP.
>
>Certified Energy Practitioner: "Practitioner" is a name regularly used in
>the health science professions. Put the word "Energy" before Practitioner
>and what do you have? Everyone that I have spoken with think that it refers
>to some new age alternative medicine practice.
>Even if they get the "Energy" part as being electrical in nature, the term
>"Energy Practitioner" is too broad. Is it Renewable (how would they know)?
>Or is it fission, fusion, or whatever?
>
>I'd like to put something on my truck, web site, and other marketing tools
>that refers to what I do and the fact that I am nationally certified. NABCEP
>does not simply do the job.
>
>My work is with PV / Solar Electric Systems and that is what I was tested
>on.
>I would have hoped for something with one of the following names in it.
>Solar, PV or Renewable Power.
>Several years ago Windy Dankoff put forward a suggestion that we call
>ourselves "PV System Specialists". That pretty much says what we were tested
>on.
>
>It has been bugging me, so I thought that I would throw it out to the group.
>
>David
>
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