dezwitinc
Senior Member
- Location
- Delray Beach, FL
Just a little rant about our POCO.
For a couple of years now, the POCO has been in the generator installation business, hiring local electrical contractors to handle the installations.
Now they have their own State Certified Master's license and are going full tilt as a contractor, selling and installing generators, still hiring subs but maintaining control over the permit process.
I understand that all companies have the right to diversify and do whatever it takes to turn a profit but when the utility starts to compete with the local contractor on this level, I take offense.
Given their name and resources, it has put the rest of us at a very unfair advantage when it comes to this work.
Due to several companies in the business going belly up and leaving consumers hanging, the customer base has become suspicious of contractors selling generators around here.
It is still my job to capture the trust of these customers and I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is, where are they going to stop?
Remember when the orange store came around to sell us supplies and then became our competition?
A public utility should be there to serve the public, not compete with them on a daily basis.
They already have one monopoly, I don't want to see them get a stranglehold on another.
What say you?
For a couple of years now, the POCO has been in the generator installation business, hiring local electrical contractors to handle the installations.
Now they have their own State Certified Master's license and are going full tilt as a contractor, selling and installing generators, still hiring subs but maintaining control over the permit process.
I understand that all companies have the right to diversify and do whatever it takes to turn a profit but when the utility starts to compete with the local contractor on this level, I take offense.
Given their name and resources, it has put the rest of us at a very unfair advantage when it comes to this work.
Due to several companies in the business going belly up and leaving consumers hanging, the customer base has become suspicious of contractors selling generators around here.
It is still my job to capture the trust of these customers and I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is, where are they going to stop?
Remember when the orange store came around to sell us supplies and then became our competition?
A public utility should be there to serve the public, not compete with them on a daily basis.
They already have one monopoly, I don't want to see them get a stranglehold on another.
What say you?