[RE-wrenches] NABCEP Testing RAVE

[Darryl Thayer]

I think you have a very valid point.  
The testing travel distance is a real burden.  It appears to me that If a valid test site, a bonded proctor, and enough candates can be provided, this should be acceptable.  We offered the above last year and was turned down.  


Daryl

--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Dana <dana at solarwork.com> wrote:

> From: Dana <dana at solarwork.com>
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] NABCEP Testing RAVE
> To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 10:52 AM
> 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 rescinded the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
> 
>  
> 
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> 
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> 
>  
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