tolerating 10% tolerance? [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

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Bob,

It's not the government rebates that are at fault. This is a good case (has
happened many times with several manufacturers) where a manufacture has
tried to do what Joel said and be more honest in their ratings, but all it
did was hurt profits--it did not improve sales (because $/STC Watt reported
by the manufacturere is still king--the CEC rating is simply an adjustment
made on the manufacturers STC data). It has become painfully obvious that if
you want the truth about module ratings, this will require an outside
influence to force the issue--all attempts by individual manufacturers over
the past 25 years have failed miserably. I'm not a big fan of government
regulation, but I am a big fan of truth--if it requires some regulation to
force truth I say bring it on. And all the neophytes out their that don't
know all the nuances of our crazy rating system will be better off--but so
will everyone else in the process.

Bill.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Maynard, Energy Outfitters [mailto:bob at energyoutfitters.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:42 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: tolerating 10% tolerance? [RE-wrenches]

Todd,

In all fairness to BP, they tried to take the US PV industry to a truth in
rating with their 160's but rebate programs penalized them for it and
rewarded those that stayed with higher ratings with wider tolerances.
Another fine example of how government rebates can keep this industry from
getting to where we need to be.  I didn't expect to see PV get this far in
my lifetime, I wonder now if I might see wide spread production incentives!

Regards,
Bob Maynard
Energy Outfitters


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