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.....

~S~