Welcome NABCEP members [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

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Hi Allan,

I do not fear NABCEP. NABCEP dialogue is like a wrenches rorschack test. 
Each wrench reads into NABCEP what he or she thinks they see.

Mark Fitzgerald set the tone for education with NABCEP's precursor, the PV 
Information and Education Association (PVIEA), which he sold to the American 
Solar Energy Society (ASES) in 1988. If NABCEP continues to focus on 
education, it will have value to its members, the industry and the public.

Wider audience - IBEW, DOE and utility companies. George Ingham has done a 
good job educating union workers, but I'm sure the IBEW could use more 
experienced PV instructors. The DOE needs to be educated in the realities of 
day-to-day PV work. Utility companies are in the PV business whether we like 
it or not so educate them.

Change - Leverage public education by working with rebate agencies, public 
education and state contracting boards to teach people what is good PV and a 
good PV contractor.

Incentive programs - Explicitly disallow rebate agencies from making NABCEP 
a requirement for contractor status and rebates.

Specific incentive program examples - Wrenches, does your rebate program 
require NABCEP or is this a dead horse?

Joel Davidson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Sindelar" <allan at positiveenergysolar.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: Welcome NABCEP members [RE-wrenches]


>
> Joel,
> Here in New Mexico, I have had two installers tell me that being certified
> has not brought value to them because the public has no consciousness of 
> the
> value of certification. So we haven't reached even close to the point that
> you apparently fear. Even I see certification as something where we have 
> to
> educate each customer as to its value. Nothing was written into our new
> state incentives to offer any benefits to certified installers.
>
> I am not aware that NABCEP has put any restrictions on its audience, other
> than those specifically relevant to ensuring the knowledge and field
> experience necessary to qualify for the exam. If eligibility requirements
> are reduced, certification loses its value. What is the "wider audience" 
> to
> which you refer? What specifically would you change? How might NABCEP
> prevent other entities from including NABCEP certification in their
> incentive programs? And have you seen specific examples of problems this 
> has
> caused?
>
> Allan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
>>
>>  I think it would serve the public and industry better if NABCEP
>> offered its voluntary national certification program to a wider audience
>> instead of allowing itself to be written into PV incentive program
>> requirements.
>>
>
>
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