PV only contractors? [RE-wrenches]

[Darrin Primm]

NC, SC, VA, TN, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA AND KY.

There are six companies I am aware of in the above listed states that derive
most of their revenue from PV and wind.  A bunch of solar thermal folks in
Florida do PV but most of their income is solar thermal.

I must put the company for which I work in the "PV as a small part of our
total revenue" category too.  PV and related products has run no more than
12% of total revenue since we started in 1979.  About 90% of that is stand
alone industrial systems for telecommunications, gas & oil and
wireless/remote data and commercial backup power.  The reason I chose to go
to work for a distributor was the slim pickings available to a wrench in
these parts.  

Darrin Primm
Sales Coordinator
Alternate Energy Group
Hutton Communications, Inc.
Phone: 770-963-1380
Toll Free: 877-896-2806
Fax: 770-963-9335
E-mail: primmd at huttonsolar.com
web site: www.huttonsolar.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:13 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: PV only contractors? [RE-wrenches]


Jeff, Thanks for the feedback. In 1990, when I was with Hoxan, I estimated
about
20 U.S. "resellers" of all types (distributors, dealers, installers,
mailorder,
but not including manufacturers) doing at least $500k in PV revenues
annually
and about 100 doing less than $500k. Lots of one-man operations, some
mom-and-pops and a few larger companies like Atlantic Solar, Sunelco, Solar
Depot, Real Goods, Solar Electric Specialties, Photron, Wm. Lamb, Photocomm,
Integrated Power Corporation, etc. Some of the bigger companies did
installation
work. Many of the smaller companies only did a few installations a year.

Anyone else care to estimate how many full time PV installers are in their
region or in the U.S.?

"Jeffrey Wolfe, Global Resources" wrote:

> There are probably about 15 people in Vermont who make a full time living
by
> selling and installing PV. That's being conservative. (i.e. I'm not
counting
> our firm as 5, but instead as 2. That's about what we have doing the field
> material ordering, final design and installation.) Counted in a more loose
> fashion, the number could be 25-30. Of course, not all our work is in VT,
or
> the US for that matter.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:43 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com; RE-Markets at topica.com
> Subject: PV only contractors? [RE-wrenches]
>
> I'm posting this on both groups because I think it overlaps. Today I was
> asked how many full-time contractors in the U.S. install just PV. No
> occasional PV contractors. No contractors that do conventional
> electrical work and some PV work. No mailorder or internet parts houses.
> Just real, full-time contractors that only install PV. I really don't
> know, but I'm guessing that there are less than 100 independent PV
> installers in California who work full time in PV. Please post how many
> full-time PV contractors you think are in the U.S.

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