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 <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dana <[email protected]> > Subject: [RE-wrenches] NABCEP Testing RAVE > To: "'RE-wrenches'" <[email protected]> > 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 rescinded the 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 > > > > Great Solar Works, Inc > > www.solarwork.com > > E - [email protected] > > V - 970.626.5253 > > F - 970.626.4140 > > C - 970.209.4076 > > "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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: [email protected] > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
