William and Wrenches, I've been following this post and thought I'd make a quick comment on the value of NABCEP certification. William, you mention below that NABCEP certification currently offers "no benefit" for you.
There are several benefits I've seen in being NABCEP certified. First, our company has been invited to bid on projects which require a minimum of one employee who is NABCEP certified. If we didn't have certified employees we wouldn't have even been invited to the party. In addition, I've been through the process and I found that just studying and preparing for the exam was helpful to keep me fresh and up to date. It's a good thing to have on my resume. In addition to that, I try to hire and encourage our employees to go for the certification. This is one way to improve our overall crew quality. If I wasn't personally certified I would have less clout when making management decisions with a NABCEP certified installer. At the very least I've been contacted many times by people who found my name on the NABCEP website oftentimes resulting in new positive relationships. -August August Goers Luminalt Energy Corporation O: 415.564.7652 M: 415.559.1525 F: 650.244.9167 From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of William Miller Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:37 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] NABCEP Tump: I think we are in agreement here. There needs to be some method to enable qualified installers and disable unqualified. I don't think the issue is whether I support NABCEP's goals or not. The issue is that regulators do not require some type of verification that a given installer can perform a safe installation. If NABCEP certification were required, I would have it and those just dabbling in the trade would not. This would be an improvement over the current situation. Until this requirement becomes reality, acquiring NAPCEP certification has no benefit for me. William Miller At 07:03 AM 11/26/2009, you wrote: Having worked for many years educating my clients, legislators and other officials of the value of a NABCEP certification,NABCEP IS important to me. I have invested many hours working w/ the early supporters, developing a national certification program which morphed into the NABCEP program. I also work on various NABCEP committees working to insure NABCEP,the test & the test questions are relevant AND continue to address the real world of PV installations I personally find your lack of support for the NABCEP certification undermining.
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