Our Company's
History
Beginning in 1982 in
the City of La Puente,
California and known as
Computech Electronic Supply
at that time, our company
designed, manufactured and
sold electronic training
kits, many of which included
solar cell technology to
students that attended
educational institutions
such as Devry Institute,
California Polytechnic
Institute, Mount San Antonio
College, ITT Tech as well as
other institutions
throughout Southern
California.
Upon
entering the "Internet Age"
in 1997 our company changed
its name to Electronic Parts
On Sale, registered the
domain name
"solarhome.com",
began website development
work and moved our
offices to Bloomington,
California and added
commercially prepared
renewable energy components
to our product line.
In 1998 we
began a transition away from the majority of our
component level products
such as diodes, capacitors,
transistors and transformers and
began focusing our attention on designing and
selling complete renewable
energy systems and related
components. On August 1st
1998 after almost a year of
manually keeping a running
count of the visitors to our
website based on new callers
to the business, we finally installed our first
hit counter on our website
and watched in excitement as
the visit counter began to
climb.
In 1999 we
began buying factory direct
from Kyocera Solar Inc. and
greatly expanded the number
pre-engineered solar
electric kit offerings.
In the year
2000 we became California's
first and only factory
authorized Trace Engineering
(now Xantrex Technology)
repair center offering
repair service to the full
line of Xantrex products. We
also began purchasing
factory direct from
Matrix/Photowatt Solar and
expanded our warehouse
facility to an excess of
4,500 sq. ft. and began a
concerted effort to
dramatically increased our
in-house inventory levels to
better serve our clients.
Also in 2000 we incorporated
under the name of Solar Home
Technologies Inc. to more
accurately reflect our focus
on renewable energy products
and began purchasing factory
direct from Xantrex
Technology, Unirac and Two
Seas Metal Works.
In 2001 we
stepped up our marketing
efforts by becoming the
first renewable energy
company in Southern
California to advertise on
KFI, KNX and KABC radio. We
also began an advertising
campaign on Charter Cable TV
as a sponsor of Steven
Spielberg's hit science
fiction thriller "Taken".
Our gross revenues for 2001
grew to more than $1.6
million.
In 2002 we
moved our operation from the
leased facility in
Bloomington, California and
purchased a commercial
building as well as two
adjoining commercially zoned
vacant lots in Victorville,
California. We hosted
Southern California's first
and largest renewable energy
expo at the Fairplex in
Pomona with several thousand
people in attendance.
See Website An
additional I-15 freeway
frontage property was also
purchased for the purpose of
future expansion. Our gross
revenues for 2002 grew to
over $1.9 million.
In 2003 we
began purchasing directly
from Outback Power Inc. We
acquired the domain name
Newmexicosolar.com which was
immediately converted into
an active website for the
primary purpose of marketing
our high performance grid
intertie systems. Our gross
revenue for 2002 grew to
over $2.1 million.
In 2004 we
employed the services of M&L
Keith and Associates to
initiate the design and
permitting process for the
construction of a new
showroom and warehouse on
the adjoining vacant
commercial properties that
we previously purchased. We
held our second Renewable
Energy Expo at the Fairplex
in Pomona with even a
greater audience in
attendance than our 2002
Expo. Our gross revenues for
2004 grew to over $2.4
million.
2005 was a
banner year for Solar Home
Technologies. We broke
ground on our new
Victorville warehouse and
showroom.
See Images We
acquired a 9 acre I-15
Freeway frontage property
for future expansion. We
entered into an agreement to
become one of only five
direct dealers in the entire
U.S. of Mitsubishi Electric
solar modules. We became a
direct distributor of PV
Powered and Magnum Energy
inverter products. We
incorporated a sister
company under the name of
Solar Home Inc. We
established Advantage Solar
for the purpose of serving
our ever growing wholesale
dealer network. Our gross
revenue for 2005 nearly
doubled over 2004's revenue
at over $4.35 million.
2006 topped
all of our previous years
with over $10 million in
revenues. Our new
Victorville showroom and
warehouse finally reached
completion. We established a
direct relation with SMA
America, manufacturers of
the SMA line of
power conditioning units. We formed two new
companies including
Advantage Solar Inc. with
it's own dedicated staff for
serving our network of more
than 100 dealers nationwide,
and Best Buy Solar Inc. for
our new Oregon facilities.
Three commercially zoned
properties with an existing
office facility were
acquired with frontage on
highway 101 in Gold Beach,
Oregon and a 5,200 square
foot facility was purchased
in Talent, Oregon to better
service our Oregon and
Northern California customer
base.
2007 With more than $2 million dollars worth of pre-sold grid intertie
systems by the middle of
January 2007. This year is
getting off to a
unprecedented start.
We are now
in negotiations with an
Oregon contractor to begin
the design and permitting
phase for the construction
of a new multi-story
showroom and warehouse
facility in Oregon to take
the place of the existing
Gold Beach office facility.
We are also
in talks with a California
contractor to begin the
design and permitting phase
of the construction of a new
sales office with frontage
along the I-15 freeway in
Victorville, California.
We have
completed contract talks
with Suntech Power for the
introduction of their
premium line of solar
electric modules and BIPV
(solar tile) line of
products.
We are
currently expanding our
installation contractor list
so that we may better
service our nationwide
customer base.
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