Vishal: Again, it’s an entirely different solution. With rooftops, you have an existing structure, and you’re building on top of it. With this one, we’re building the structure, and then mounting purlins and then mounting modules.
There is a big difference between a traditional, going-to-an-existing-building-and-putting-solar-on-the-roof to a carport. On the flip side, there are other advantages, especially when the roof doesn’t have the capacity. It’s also much more visual. You could do, again, different types of marketing on a carport that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to do with a rooftop system.
There are lots of advantages of carport versus rooftop, but the pricing is very different. I hesitate to talk about pricing because again, every job is different, and every location is different. If you have a project in mind, reach out to Polar, reach out to Jonathan, get him the project information, and we will definitely get back to you with your proposal. You can see where we’re at, and how we go about engineering our project.
Nick: There’s something I want to mention to that. You mentioned a marketing tool; this is a huge marketing tool for all solar customers or solar-related companies. If you’re an EPC, if you’re, any type of installer, having this system on your parking lot is huge. People are going to drive by and people are going to see. If you can put your logo on it, any banners, any signage, and keep in mind to go past customers as well, that this is real estate they already own.
We’re not going out to secure any real estate, farmland, so on, so forth when it’s already there. So, might as well utilize the space that you have. It’s not like at extra cost to the client.