[RE-wrenches] Problem with NABCEP ad

[Nick Soleil]

I am sitting for the NABCEP test next month, but resisted for many years, 
because I did not want to endorse an additional layer of bureaucracy and expense 
for solar installers.   It costs as much as the state contractor's license!  
Most of the competent installers have become certified now, so there is not much 
we can do about it.  NABCEP is too much money, and adding additional 
certifications should be at a reduced cost.

 Nick Soleil
Project Manager
Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC
PO Box 657
Petaluma, CA 94953
Cell:   707-321-2937
Office: 707-789-9537
Fax:    707-769-9037




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From: Aram Alexander <aram at aramsolar.com>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Sun, February 6, 2011 10:11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Problem with NABCEP ad

No you are not. I have been installing grid tied PV for 10 years in ca.
Nabcep is union based and all though it is good but it does not mean by any 
means the best as we have to fix several nabcep installed systems.
I personally don't like there advertising either

Aram 

On Feb 6, 2011, at 9:13 AM, wirewiz at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello Wrenches,
> 
> NABCEP has a full page ad in Home Power magazine that tells potential PV buyers 
>to "Insist on a NABCEP Certified Installer". That's a great ad if you are 
>certified but not so good if you are not. I know many of you are but lots of us 
>are not yet certified. 
>
> 
> NABCEP is doing a great job to ensure that PV is installed by qualified 
>personal but is it their job to unintentionally cause non NABCEP certified 
>installers who are otherwise very qualified to lose business. I don't think so. 
>
> 
> I contacted NABCEP about the consequences of this ad and actually asked them to 
>stop running it or at least tone it down so it doesn't cause installers like to 
>me to lose business. They disagreed with me.
> 
> Am I being too sensitive here?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Larry Liesner
> Wirewiz
> Westport, CT
> Phone: 203-644-2404
> Fax: 203-557-0556
> wirewiz at gmail.com
> www.wire-wiz.com
> 
> 
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