Michigan-based PSG will offer its customers Grape Solar’s 175W to 280W PV panels to pair with its solar mount and tracking systems.
Grape Solar of Eugene, Oregon, will expand its product offering to include Patriot Solar’s tracking systems to its network of 5,000 independent solar installers in the US and Canada. Grape Solar will purchase and provide to installers PSG’s horizontal pole mounts and one- or two-axis trackers and racking systems for various applications.
Ocean Yuan, president of Grape Solar, said: “This is a great partnership for both parties. We now greatly broaden our reach into solar markets where trackers are used. In addition to our North American sales, we anticipate doing about $50m in business in Argentina alone. Including business we expect in Brazil, Peru, Chile, Puerto Rico, and other countries, we could reach sales of $100m in South America by the end of 2010.”
Both parties expect to sell more than 10MW of complete systems within the next 12 months through their networks of installers and potential customers.
Through their partnership, PSG and Grape Solar plan to penetrate the South American solar market via existing satellite dish distribution channels PSG sister company, Patriot Antenna Systems, has already forged. The first shipment is expected to begin in May 2010 to Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil and Argentina.
