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Solar2011:
If nobody said it yet...
Welcome to ECN Forums!!!

Just an FYI, I'm not a solar installer, but an AHJ here in New Jersey.

NJ is chasing the shaky side with solar, I believe we are #2 or 3 in capacity. We recently put a 4.28 MW rooftop on line in my town.

I finally got permission from my employer to post some pics of projects I did. I just need some time to sit down in front of a computer to do it.
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Solar2011,

I too am an AHJ here in NJ and the PV systems are going big around here. I get to inspect a PV system at least 5 times a month if not more. Nothing as big as the one John inspected, but we have a few large ones around here.

well HotOne, there are certian distinctions that might be good to think about when using the term 'solar installer' and/or other alt energy installers

I've done them for years up here in the puckerbrush, and really didn't think anything of it, at least not past art690

a 'lectrician is a 'lectrican is a 'lectrian........

Then i found out about the NABCEP>>>>
http://www.nabcep.org/

So here's the deal, you and i can pull a permit (state laws proiding) , and do an install, but those very same states also only dole out the rebates for a NABCEP cert

so you see, the plot thickens with the usual buearcracies having a finger in the pie.....

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Last I heard, and just checked at the site....there are no more rebates being accepted. (Period)

I remember someone saying last fall (2010) that the 2011 year rebates were a fraction of what they have been in years past, and.....they were ALL 'spoken for' as of fall 2010.

So, based on that, guess it doesn't matter what assorted alphabet you have on your business cards, other than the Electrical License.

I stand corrected HotOne.

and to be honest, this outside cert snafu tweaked a few noses around here....

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FPL just opened up a $2 /KW rebate program here but I have not looked at it in detail yet. There is still a federal tax deal too ... but hurry. That might not last until fall.