I just spent a couple of months over the past year in Western PR, investigating possibly buying a home.living/working/doing business there. I was unimpressed with the solar companies I talked with. The biggest company, with offices across PR, had racking which I would never use in Maine, never mind in hurricane prone Caribbean islands. I have little doubt that 99% of the systems installed with the racking (made in PR of too-thin gauge aluminum) did not survive. I have a reasonable command of Spanish but it seemed that if I were not native I would have a harder time doing business there. I currently have a second solar company in the Bahamas (www.islandsolarbahamas.com) and find it much easier to do business there, in a foreign country, than I believe I would in PR. That said, I really enjoyed my leisure time and many of the people there.
Daryl > PR is a crazy place to do business but it can be done. I lived there for a > year and I will just say get used things like books for school in english > and taught in Spanish. Street signs in a combination of both. There is a > reason they have not become a state. I liked my stay there. > > Be very careful of all the fraud happening now on the Internet! > > Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar > "we go where powerlines don't" > http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/ > e-mail [email protected] > text 209 813 0060 > >> Hi All, >> I have a friend in PR that is wondering about a particular business that >> bills itself as a large scale off-grid installer. If anyone has >> experience >> working in PR and/or may know something about solar businesses there, >> I'd >> appreciate a reply off-list. I'm not sure how to evaluate design and >> workmanship in PR, since most trades (from what I've seen) tend to >> operate >> to different standards there than in the States. If anyone has any >> thoughts on that as well, I'd be interested to hear, as I'm trying to >> advise him on how to evaluate local PR solar companies. >> Thanks as always, >> Howie >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >> >> List Address: [email protected] >> >> Change listserver email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List-Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out or update participant bios: >> www.members.re-wrenches.org >> >> > > > Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar > "we go where powerlines don't" > http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/ > e-mail [email protected] > text 209 813 0060 > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
