[RE-wrenches] NABCEP Testing RAVE

[Dana]

I am wondering about the effort and embedded energy put forth to test for
NABCEP [at least for those of us on the other side of the Continental
Divide]. Has this happened to you too?

 

We gathered 7 people from 5 companies on the Western slope of CO to test for
both PV & Thermal with the promise from NABCEP that if we got 5 people we
could test at an approved location on the western slope of Colorado [ we are
all 9 to 12 hours roundtrip from the test site in Denver CO. time ]. We met
this parameter and then Rebecca Eaton Director of NABCEP rescinded the
offer. A lot of us would not have signed up if this offer to test 1.5 hours
away vs. the trip to Denver was not offered.

 

The trip now involves 2 days of driving, 1 test day and 2 nights in hotels
plus the usual in meals out, etc.

 

To me after 20 years in this business of working for trying to shift how we
all use energy on this planet, as you all do too, to have the long desired
National Certification for both Thermal and PV available and to have to sink
that much energy into just travel due to an inflexible testing entity is
kind of an insult to our combined focus.

 

Is this testing service our test service or what?

 

As long as I am expressing frustration I would like to bring up the 6 month
interval on the Nabcep test too. Does this work for all of you?

 

Thanks -

 

Dana Orzel

 

Great Solar Works, Inc

www.solarwork.com

E - dana at solarwork.com

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F - 970.626.4140

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"I'd put my money on solar energy. I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and
coal run out before we tackle that."

-Thomas Edison, in conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, March
1931

 

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