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Isn't licensure a practice of accountability?
So why would one not be able to practice and give medical advice without the proper licensing as a medical doctor?
Same goes for the engineers who have their PE (Professional Engineering) license? The PE shows that one has the knowledge and the accountability if something went wrong.
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ef9 - are you suggesting that electricians and plumbers are retested and licensed every time applicable code is updated/adopted? If not, just because they HAD the knowledge doesn't mean they HAVE the knowledge. This is NOT a discussion about medical doctors and self surgery or opening a walk-in care facility, but a very limited application of skills (plumbing and electric) in a rather narrow application (personal, residential home building).
As for accountability, if it rested exclusively with the license, why are we bothered by county inspections?
I am definitely NOT advocating doing away with licensed contractors, they are definitely needed. What I am saying, the county needs to be more realistically flexible. To me, this is also another thorn in the "affordable" housing debated - the county does everything in its power to make building LESS affordable.
David
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I am a licensed electrical contractor (there is no such thing as a separate licensed solar contractor) with limited solar experience. I have put a 13 panel net metering system on my house. Without going into details, the installation was easy, dealing with the County and Helco was not. Unlike other electrical permits, a solar permit requires a set of plans stamped by an electrical engineer and technical spec sheets on all the equipment that is to be installed.
A future complications, from the Helco website:
"Under the law, the cap on the total power producing capacity of generators signed up to take advantage of net energy metering is set at one percent of each electric utility’s system peak demand. The PUC, by rule or order, can increase this percentage. The actual number of customers who can sign up before this cap is reached depends on the combined size of the individual renewable energy systems. On Oahu, 40 percent of the cap is reserved for systems of 10 kW or smaller; on Maui and Hawaii Island, 50 percent of the cap is reserved for smaller systems".
Among my other problems, when I turned in the net metering forms I was admonished that I should have done this before beginning--supposedly they are getting close to the number "allowed" and you are supposed to get prior approval.
Jerry
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So,Jerry,what all this means for you and the other people who installed a good system using a good tech,but without the "perfect" paperwork ?
Will they be threatened to dismantle the unit,pay fines or if a house is not for sale,it will be let go?
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