Gosh Darryl - judging from the reaction of one of my solar heros, I realize that what I posted could be (must have been) taken the wrong way. I am proud to be a craftsman and a wrench that has evolved into a business owner (along with my wife) of a great operation filled with great people.
The gist of my post was concern that requiring prevailing wage on residential work drives the cost up such that it is unaffordable and doesnt happen (bad for planet - bad for the workers that could have been on the roof). My hope is that we can pay a living wage with benefits AND hit a price point that keeps the trucks on the road and let's Mr. Jones put solar on his house. For a brighter energy future, Geoff Greenfield President Third Sun Solar & Wind Power Ltd. 340 West State street, Unit 25 Athens, Ohio 45701 (740) 597-3111 fax: (740)597-1548 www.third-sun.com Clean Energy - Expertly Installed -----Original Message----- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Darryl Thayer Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:51 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] prevailing wages for PV work I take strong objection to this post, and to the idea that that PV should be another "roofing" industry where workers can not feed there famil;ies form toiling all day. DARRYL --- On Tue, 10/13/09, Geoff Greenfield <ge...@third-sun.com> wrote: > From: Geoff Greenfield <ge...@third-sun.com> > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] prevailing wages for PV work > To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> > Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:29 AM > Ahhhh the brotherhood. > > The good news is that the 2010 code of federal regulations > has pv (and wind maint) as distinct ategories in their CCR > (?) list. They ate stand alone, not under electrcal (or > roofer, or glazier, or sheet metal or any if the othertrades > fighting to claim pv). I am out of pocket but can dig up an > older email with the reference and correct jargon. > > I think this is more for insurance but I think it is a > precident for our arguement that pv should be stand alone. > PA just seriously hampered their pv industry (mostly > residential) and politics is where the brotherhood is strong > and solar advocates are week. This was a battle in CA and > las Vegas a while back, and will be popping up again and > again. > > For a brighter energy future, > > Geoff Greenfield > President > Third Sun Solar & Wind Power Ltd. > 340 West State Street, Unit 25 > Athens, OH 45701 > > 740.597.3111 Fax 740.597.1548 > www.Third-Sun.com > > Clean Energy - Expertly Installed > > > > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org 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
