As the solar market matures, some industry observers believe it may one day look similar to the electrical wholesaling industry, where a network of national, regional and smaller independent companies provide electrical contractors and other installers with photovoltaic panels, inverters, racking systems and balance of system (BOS) products such as wire and cable, circuit protection equipment, enclosures, conduit, connectors and related devices to tie-in the solar panels to a facility's electrical system and the power grid.

In a move that points toward the evolution of the distribution channel in the solar market, the parent company that owns two of the largest solar distributors in the market, DC Power Systems, Rohnert Park, Calif., and Solar Depot, Petaluma, Calif., announced last week that it would integrate some of the back-office internal operations of these companies so they could focus more on marketing solar products in North America. The two distributors will operate as two companies within SolarNet Holdings, LLC, and will together serve more than five thousand renewable energy dealers throughout the Americas, forming the largest distribution company in the industry.

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