C-46 solar license

Invent your own business with a C-46 (California solar contractors license) ~Tom
The following email post is to Steve Kennedy of Solar 6 from JB.

Steve,

I met you at the PG&E Solar Class last week.

I may have a job in Sunnyvale that could use your help. Maybe we could hire you as an independent contractor specifically for this job and see where it goes from there. We will be focusing most of our efforts out in the Dublin, Pleasanton, San Ramon area to try and build the solar business. I’m not sure you’d like to do the commute out our way.

The Sunnyvale job is a grid-tied battery backup system with a backup diesel generator. Let me know if  you know anything about these systems (ie…how to hook up a subpanel for the critical loads; how to wire up the battery system with the subpanel, the charge controller, the generator, and the inverter).

I know you are trying to break into the Solar Business. I had a thought for you that might be helpful for companies like me trying to get into the business. I myself will be going for my C-46 in the next few months. If you had your C-46 (emphasis added ~Tom), you could approach contractors and offer not only your services as a solar project manager, but you could also offer your C-46 credential that would help jumpstart their entrance into the PV market. If I’d met someone with their C-46 a year ago, and that person offered to help jumpstart my solar program, I would have jumped at the chance. Just a thought.

Regards,

JB