Grape Solar home solar kits right at your local Costco!
Looking for a convenient place to buy solar panel kits and home solar power systems? Why not at your local Costco Wholesale store?
This week, Grape Solar announced that has entered into a business arrangement with Costco to sell home solar panels in its self-service warehouse facilities and online at www.costco.com. You can find the solar panel kits on the page entitled, “Hardware – Generators & Backup Power.”
The Eugene, Oregon-based solar manufacturer is looking to expand its customer reach. President of Grape Solar, Ocean Yuan, enthused about the new business arrangement and the possibility of making it easier for property owners to switch to solar power:
“For the first time, a leading retailer with numerous locations, quality recognition and tens of millions of loyal customers has made it possible for end users to buy high-quality solar products at great prices and have the products delivered directly to their homes in a matter of days .”
Originally, Grape Solar and Costco tested sales markets in Costco Warehouses located in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Recently, the program expanded to Texas, Alabama and Florida, and many more markets will soon open up to offer quality, affordable solar panels for homeowners.
If you are a member of Costco, you can choose between a variety of solar power systems at reduced members-only prices: 880W, 2300W, 3680W or 5060W. Grape Solar products are ready-to-install solar panel kits.
The Home Solar Power kits available at Costco are easy to install, grid-tied systems that include Grape Solar panels, inverters, and racking systems. If you find you need more solar power, you can add on additional panels to increase the size of your system very easily. With the grid-tied solar systems, consumers can use net metering to sell back excess solar electricity to the utility and get credit for the times that they need to draw on the grid for power.
Grape Solar panels come with a 25-year warranty on power output and a 10-year warranty on materials and workmanship. The inverters have a 10-year warranty and so do the racking systems. Be sure to save your receipts too because the home solar power kits are eligible for federal, state and local rebate and incentive programs.
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April 8th, 2011 at 4:39 am
I have searched the costco website to no avail. Last week when I first saw the reference pertaining to the availability at costco, I did not have the time to fully investigate.
When I attempt the search today, it is no longer listed as an available product.
here is the link I tried without success…
http://www.costco.com/Common/N.....Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&N=5000043&whse=BC&ViewAll=999&Ntt=GRAPESOLAR0325&cm_mmc=BCEmail_622-_-FOCUS-_-10-_-MarketingItemName&ec=1&topnav=
Can someone please provide the costco link for the solar panel home kit?
Thanks!
April 8th, 2011 at 6:18 am
I’m sorry about that! Let me take a look at the website. Perhaps the Grape Solar products are not up there yet, as the announcement was just made. I will contact them for more information.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:54 am
Thanks…eagerly awaiting a good link!
April 8th, 2011 at 11:58 am
The Grape Solar products were on the Costco Web Site last week. They are no longer there, nor is there any reference to them on the Costco site.
April 8th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
The Grape Solar products were on Costco’s web site last week. This week, they no longer appear on the site. Strange.
April 16th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Just went to costco.com, typed in solar panels in the search field, and they’re baaaack. Recall noticing a couple of items like that several weeks ago. Perhaps when they run out, they take items off website until they are restocked?
April 27th, 2011 at 5:35 am
I was at our local Costco yesterday in Bend, Oregon and there was a huge display of the Grape Solar panels with a table and a guy handing out information and offering free residential quotes. Cool!