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[Roger Claypool] I've learned that there's so much more to it
than just buying a panel and plugging it in.
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There's so many more considerations: What do you expect?
What are your power, uh, requirements?
What are you intending to do in other words?
I would've been so ill equipped had I just jumped in and done this on my own.
[Zeke Fairbank] If you look at photovoltaic in-in the state of Missouri
I think we're up 3000% in the last year or two, that's huge.
And I look at the number of installers that were around couple years ago
versus the amount of installers that are around today,
that-that number is growing very, very rapidly.
So as-as the installer base grows,
the need for people that they can hire that have requisite skills also grows.
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--I think people that have a passion for living responsibly, you know, it's a big draw.
There's definitely a demand and I think in the Kansas City area
we have a good prospect for harvesting of solar energy.
We know that our energy costs are just gonna go up so it's gonna grow.
[Zeke Fairbank] We need to have people that are trained for the safe installation
for property and personnel, uh, photovoltaic and/or even solar thermal.
And that safety is something that there are specifics within the industry
that-that are much different than any of the other trades.
So you-you get up on a roof, you've got pitch,
you're handling 120 pound solar collector,
we're moving things around and you have to be very careful,
you have to work very efficiently, you have to know what you're doing
and so training is-is absolutely critical
because you don't want to try and figure it out when you get up on a-on a four story building
and you're out in that hot sun trying to figure out what you're gonna do.
You want to have the education, you want to move forward, you want to be safe,
and you want to get the job done as efficiently and as safely as possible.
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