Ladies and gentlemen, apologies for the delay. Welcome to the Shoals Technologies Group fourth quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Today, the call is being recorded, and we've allocated one hour for prepared remarks and Q&A. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to [Ashish Gupta]. Thank you. You may now begin.
Thank you, operator, and thank you everyone for joining us today. Hosting the call with me are CEO Jason Whitaker and CFO Philip Garton. On this call, management will be making projections or other forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions which are subject to risks and uncertainties. As you listen and consider these comments, you should understand that these statements, including the guidance regarding the first quarter of 2022 and full year 2022, are not guarantees of performance or results. Actual results could differ materially from our forward-looking statements if any of our assumptions are incorrect or because of other factors.
These factors include, among other things, the risk factors described in our filings with Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as economic and market circumstances, industry conditions, company performance and financial results, the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, availability and price of our components and materials, project cancellations, decreased demand for our products, and policy and regulatory changes. Although we may indicate and believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove inaccurate or incorrect, and therefore there can be no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized. We caution that any forward-looking statement included in this discussion is made as of the date of this discussion and do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements. Today's presentation also includes references to non-GAAP financial measures.
You should refer to the information contained in the company's fourth quarter press release for definitional information and reconciliations of historical non-GAAP measures to the comparable financial measures. With that, let me turn the call over to Jason.
[audio distortion] initiatives. I'll talk about current conditions in the solar market and wrap up with some commentary and overview of our financial results for the fourth quarter and provide our outlook for 2022. During 2021, we continued to convert customers to BLA, and the number of EPCs and developers using our system has grown to 18, up more than four-fold from 12 months ago. We believe that eight of the top 10 solar EPCs use our combine-as-you-go system on a majority of their projects, and we're currently in the process of transitioning an additional 15 customers to our system. Outside of BLA, we're starting to see significant traction from the new products we introduced last year.
Since launching our wire management solutions in the fourth quarter, we've received orders for more than 300 MW of solar projects, and the customer feedback received thus far has been incredibly positive. We plan to ship our first IV curve benchmarking products in the coming weeks and continue to expect first shipments of high-capacity plug-and-play harnesses and BLA 2.0 to begin in the second half of this year. We're also making strides in battery storage, leveraging products and expertise from our ConnectPV acquisition. We took our first orders for dedicated storage products in the third quarter last year, generated revenue in the following quarter, and have several high-profile battery [audio distortion] quarters. We've made significant progress on our international expansion plans. Last month, we received IEC certification for our BLA, which was the last hurdle to selling our products throughout the EU.
We have our sales team in place, and our products are now fully qualified. As a result, we expect to see backlogs start to build this year. We're also looking at opportunities beyond Europe, and we've started building a sales team in LATAM. Now turning to our newly formed EV charging business. We launched our product in the fourth quarter and have seen a tremendous level of market interest in quoting volume. We signed our first MSA with a charge point operator in November, shipped our first product in February, and we'll be ramping up production as planned through the second quarter of this year to meet our demand. We're also starting to see synergies between our EV business and our core solar business as our customers are increasingly active in both solar and EV charging.
A great example of that is the strategic agreement we've recently signed with Luminace, the North American decarbonization-as-a-service business of Brookfield Renewable. Luminace offered to collaborate with us to combine the best-in-class, high-quality distributed generation platform with our leading-edge e-mobility solutions to provide a comprehensive EV charging, solar, storage, and energy-efficient solutions. We are excited about this partnership and are honored to have been selected to be a vendor to an industry leader like Brookfield Renewable. Finally, earlier this year, we unveiled the Shoals eMobility Innovation Center, a living lab that enables customers to experience Shoals' best-in-class electric vehicle charging solutions. We're bringing innovation to how EV charging is deployed and installed, just like we did in solar. Having the center to demonstrate our products is an important tool to win new customers.
The hard work we did in 2021 to convert more customers to BLA, introduce new products, enter the European market, and launch our EV business is going to accelerate our growth in 2022. To put that in perspective, we had backlog and awarded orders of $299 million at year-end 2021, which was nearly twice what it was at the end of 2020. That number has continued to grow in Q1 and underscores the momentum that is building across our business. To support our growth, we're expanding our engineering and sales team and will be opening an additional manufacturing facility that will more than double our production capacity. Now turning to current market conditions.
Last quarter, we disclosed that several of our customers had pushed out the delivery dates of their orders, primarily as a result of delays they were experiencing in receiving modules or other equipment required for their projects from other vendors. We noted those pushouts would cause some of our revenues to shift from the fourth quarter of 2021 into 2022. That shift has played out largely as we expected, with only the timing of revenue being impacted and no revenue being lost. What we didn't expect is at the same time as we were seeing pushouts from some customers, we saw tremendous growth in orders from others. So much so that we've had to add manufacturing capacity to meet the demand. We think our experience reflects the overall solar market right now.
Demand is incredible, but the exact timing of projects remains very dynamic because customers are contending with so many moving pieces within their supply chain. What that means for us in 2022 is that while we know our revenue growth rate is going to increase significantly compared to last year, it's challenging to predict exactly how significantly and which quarters will see the greatest growth. Because of that uncertainty, we've tried to capture a wide range of potential outcomes in our 2022 revenue outlook. I'll wrap up by making some comments on our margins. Many of you have asked us about the sustainability of our margins, particularly given the year-over-year compression in gross margin we experienced in Q3 and Q4. We expect to deliver gross margins on average that is in the range of 38%-40%.
We will have blips along the way related to mix or supplier issues in any given quarter, b ut we are in a situation where we are delivering significant value to our customers and are able to capture the increase in our product costs over time. Nearly all of the lower gross margin we saw in Q4 were related to a price increase from one of our suppliers that we chose not to pass on to our customers on a certain set of projects. That decision will continue to impact our gross margins in the first half of 2022, with a return to normalized levels in subsequent quarters. The story on EBITDA margins will be a little bit different. We are investing heavily in our human capital infrastructure to support our growth initiatives, including EV and international.
Which means we are adding SG&A ahead of when we have the revenue to absorb it. That will result in EBITDA margins that will decline modestly year- over- year in 2022, even as gross margin increases. However, we believe that's a small price to pay to support the significant demand we have today and accelerate our growth. I'll now turn it over to Phil, who will discuss our fourth quarter 2021 financial results and our first quarter and full year 2022 guidance. Phil?
Thank you, Jason. For the fourth quarter, revenue grew 24% versus the prior year period to $48 million, driven by increases of 29% in System Solutions and 15% in Components. The growth in System Solutions revenue reflects strong demand for our combine-as-you-go system. The strength in Components revenue during the quarter was consistent with the expected change in mix. Sales of System Solutions represented 68% of total revenues versus 65% in the prior year period. Gross margin in the fourth quarter was 33.1% compared to 38.3% in the prior year period. The decline in gross margin year-over-year was due to approximately $1 million of higher material and logistics costs, largely related to one supplier we elected not to pass on to our customers.
We will see approximately $3 million of additional costs in the first half of 2022, after which we expect our gross margin to normalize at levels in line with what we have achieved historically. Fourth quarter general administrative expenses were $11 million, compared to $5.6 million in the prior year period. The change was primarily a result of higher stock-based compensation, planned increased payroll due to higher headcount to support our growth in product initiatives, and new public company costs. Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $11.3 million, compared to $14.1 million in the prior year period. Adjusted net income was $900,000 in the fourth quarter, compared to $9 million in the prior year period.
Please see the adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income reconciliation tables for our fourth quarter press release for a bridge to our GAAP results. As of December 31st, 2021, we had backlog and awarded orders of $299 million, an increase of 94% year-over-year and 10% versus September 30th of 2021. The increase in backlog and awarded orders reflect continued robust customer demand for Shoals products. Turning to our outlook for 2022. Based on current market conditions and input from our customers and team, we expect 2022 revenues to be in the range of $300 million-$350 million, up 41%-64% year-over-year.
We expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $79 million-$97 million and adjusted net income to be in the range of $54 million-$69 million. As for the first quarter of 2022, we are updating our prior outlook. We continue to expect revenue to be in the range of $68 million-$74 million. However, we now expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $16 million-$20 million and adjusted net income to be in the range of $10 million-$13 million. To help provide some context on the bridge from our first quarter outlook, in addition to approximately $3 million impact that Jason and I discussed earlier, I wanted to call out first quarter weather-related shutdowns that resulted in approximately $4 million in lost revenue and a decrease of between $1 million and $2 million of adjusted EBITDA.
We expect to recapture these system shipments in the coming quarters. To support our multi-year growth outlook, we are pulling forward several investments, including the addition of our new facility, which will more than double manufacturing capacity and allow us to more effectively manage our business and serve our customers. In addition, we are substantially increasing our engineering and sales staff, as well as our entire human capital infrastructure to support our growth initiatives over the next several years. With all that said, we are experiencing significant growth and are confident that EBITDA margin will rise as we get leverage on SG&A exiting this year. I will now pass it back to Jason for closing remarks.
Thanks, Phil. I'd like to close by thanking all of our customers for their commitment to Shoals, our employees for their contributions to our company success, and our shareholders for their continuous support. We're off to a strong start in 2022. As we've talked about, I'm extremely excited about the growth we've seen in our backlog and awarded orders. I couldn't be more proud of our progress on our growth initiatives, and we look forward to sharing future developments in upcoming calls. With that, I wanna thank everyone for their time today and apologize for the technical difficulties which resulted in a delayed start. We'll now open the line for questions.
Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. You will hear a tone acknowledging your request. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing any keys. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Your first question comes from Brian Lee from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking the questions. I had a couple here, I guess. Just to start off on the gross margin, you know, you're talking about a $3 million additional impact to the $1 million headwind you already had in 4Q. So, you know, if I do the math, total $4 million, which means, you know, you're gonna be at about a 30% gross margin level in Q1. Is that the right ballpark? And if so, is that the trough here in Q1 and it improves in Q2? Or how should we just think about the cadence of margins in the first half as you move toward, you know, more of a normalized margin path in the second half?
This is Phil. I can take that one, Brian. I'm not gonna give you exactly, since we don't provide guidance on gross margins. Gross margins will be the lowest we expect in the first quarter. After we kinda work through this business, it will grow up or grow in the second quarter or rise. We expect in the second half of the year to get back to approximately what our historical levels have been.
With the historical levels, I mean, you guys have been in the high 30s%, you've been, you know, 40%+. Can you kind of maybe narrow it down for us a little bit? Are you planning to be back to the high 30s%? Are you gonna be 40%+ in terms of kinda what you're thinking with respect to normalization on the margin path? Is it raising pricing in the second half? Is it your cost, you know, assumption [audio distortion] v isibility that you get back to that normalized level as you quantify it?
Hey, Brian. Jason here.
Go ahead, Jason.
Pleasure to speak with you again, Brian. You know, when you look at that, as I said in my prepared remarks, you know, we're looking to provide, you know, on average, you know, margin profile in that 38%-40%. Kinda going back to, you know, the drop in Q1, you know, that's literally a direct result, as we stated, based upon an increase in price from predominantly one vendor. That was the decision that we made to absorb that particular price because it was a late drop, almost at time of ship. We didn't feel like it was the right thing to do to pass that on directly to our customers because it was not directly related to copper or aluminum.
You know, it's one of those things we considered to be, you know, definitely short-term pain for significantly long-term gain from a relationship perspective with our partners.
Okay, fair enough. Last one from me, and I'll pass it on. Again, on the margins, if my math is right, it's your guidance for Q1, EBITDA margin percentage is higher than what you saw in Q4. But obviously, gross margin percentage is down in Q1 versus Q4 if you just kinda run the math on the provided guidance. Is there additional adjustments to the EBITDA in Q1, or can you kinda help reconcile that? Then, you know, $5 million on cash balance at the end of Q4, maybe fill a quick comment on liquidity. Are you tapping the revolver? Sort of what's your position here? Thank you.
We tap the revolver as necessary. As you know, I mean, we're growing the business, which can consume cash, and coming out of the fourth quarter is always, fourth quarter is relatively low production during the holidays, which means your receivables are lower coming into that. Anyway, yeah, the cash figures were a little lower, but that's kinda how they are, depending on how you collect and pay the bills at the end of the year. As we go look at margins in Q1, remember I did mention the weather issues will impact us. We will have some weather impact in that in Q1, in addition to this cost item that's rolling through.
We expect and we're investing in the business. I think what I feel looking at as the CFO, a s we look year-over-year, the growth is dramatic. You know, between 40%-64% approximately, annualized growth, depending on our guidance. We look at that, we're investing not only for this year, but into the future. That's why we're investing in the SG&A, which is driving down our adjusted EBITDA slightly. It's absolutely the right thing to do as far as the valuation of the business, because the opportunities are so great out there that this investment is well worth it.
All right. Appreciate the call. I'll take it offline. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Maheep Mandloi from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Hey, good evening, everyone. Thanks for taking our questions. First, just on the backlog growth, and I just wanted to reconcile that with the 2022 revenue guidance growth. You talked about 94% backlog growth, new quote activity of 100% year-over-year. Keeping that in mind, like, can you talk through, like, are you seeing any pressure, the pushouts from 2022 into 2023? If we could see some upside on the supply chain side now for your customers, which could impact the guidance on the revenues positively.
Yeah. Hey, Maheep, Jason Whitaker here. Good to speak with you again. You know, regarding, you know, potential pushout from 2022 to, you know, 2023, you know, when you look at the visibility we have, and we do have phenomenal visibility, but when you look at that 2022 to 2023, it's really difficult to say, and predict what that would look like, you know, over let's say, 12 months from now. When you look at the, you know, the guidance that we've actually provided, you know, we're very comfortable with the guidance. As Phil had mentioned, you know, we've seen significant growth in our backlog and awarded orders.
You know, we've taken that into consideration when you look at the wide range of guidance that we provided based on some of the supply chain things that we've seen, both directly and indirectly.
Gotcha. In terms of the material costs and logistics costs, could you just talk about like, how should we think about that going forward if in case there was something similar, should we expect, are you renegotiating the contracts with the customers to pass those along, or what would the strategy be on that end?
Yeah, great question, Maheep. You know, just to remind everyone, you know, when we talk about it in prior, you know, earnings calls, when we go out and we bid a project, we actually refresh that project based upon, you know, the current commodity. With that, you know, we've been able to pass on, you know, all of the costs, you know, that we've seen, you know, as commodities have continued to increase over time. With the one exception, which again, was not specifically aluminum- or copper- based, it was more of a value-add increase from one vendor, of which they passed on to us at time of ship. We made that decision to absorb that, versus pass that on to our customers.
From a logistics perspective, you know, we've definitely seen you know increase in pricing from a logistics standpoint. Phil, correct me if I'm wrong, but when you look at the revenue that, you know, we actually get from a logistics perspective compared to the revenue we generate from our products, it is single digit percentage, like low single digit percentage, almost not even single digits. When you see, you know, price fluctuations like that, it doesn't have a meaningful impact, you know, on our product itself.
From a shipping perspective, I would say the only other comment that I have to add there is, you know, we have seen, you know, some shipping, you know, possibly elongate a little bit from a timing perspective, you know, but nothing significant.
Thanks. This one last one, housekeeping from me, and then jump back in the queue. Looking at the tax receivable liabilities on the balance sheet, and they increased by around roughly $50 million in the year. Could you just remind us what is that related to? Thanks.
I'll handle that. Yes. A TRA is really a benefit to the company in the long term. And what it amounts to, I don't know what the current number is, but I know when we did our IPO, there was about 115 companies that had done a TRA before. Anyway, what it amounts to is there's a structure where it captures this future amortization tax deduction. For you know, better taxes for us, lower taxes, and 85% of that goes to the previous owners, and 15% of that stays with the company, which is the normal spread. What you see then is you have a long-term payable, and then that offsets.
You notice the asset is greater than the liability, which shows the positive nature of it for the company. You're just kind of getting a.
Got it.
A look at future tax payments that in reality go to the prior owner, rather than going to the taxing authorities.
Got it. Yeah, I'll follow up in detail, later. Thanks.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Philip Shen from Roth Capital. Please go ahead.
Hi, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. First one's on the 2022 revenue guide. Was wondering if you might be able to break out the geographic mix of the guide and maybe talk through the risk around revenues as it relates to module supply with your customers. If you can also talk about what percentage of that 2022 revenue might be new products as opposed to you know conventional or the older products, that would be great. Thanks.
Hey, Phil, Jason here. Pleasure to speak with you again. You know, when you look at the backlog and awarded orders, and as far as the new products are concerned, Phil, you know, we're not really breaking down the exact mix from new products or international. But one of the things I do wanna point out alongside of the backlog and awarded order growth, as you can see, and we've talked about the number of customers that have continued to convert over to our full system BLA solution. You know, based upon that, as you would expect, a meaningful portion of that backlog and awarded orders falls in line with our BLA full system solution offering.
You know, from a module perspective, Phil, you know, one of the things that I do wanna point out, you know, although we have seen continued to see some volatility with project delays, I mean, some projects have moved in, some projects have moved out. You know, it hasn't necessarily been around complete redesign, you know, like we've seen in prior quarters. Where I'm going with that is that you know, there are more optimization and tweaks versus you know, complete redesign and module change outs. I'm not too sure if maybe that's a direct result of, you know, for example, WRO, which has been with us for quite some time, as you well know. You've done a great job covering that.
You know, if that's been around to where, you know, the industry's been able to manage around, you know, some of the issues by de-risking the ultimate choices. Or in some cases, you know, maybe panel manufacturers, you know, gaining a better understanding of what's required to provide a smooth transition, you know, at CBP.
Great. Thanks for the color there, Jason. You know, today you announced a new manufacturing facility. With what's going on in Europe and the potential tremendous growth that we could see there, as a result of the continent moving away from Russian gas, what would it take to expand manufacturing capacity perhaps either to Europe or another international location? Is that on the map at all, or is that too distant to consider at this point?
You know, Phil, you know, from a manufacturing perspective, you know, as of right now, you know, our current plans are to continue to manufacture, you know, our product in North America. You know, which is part of the reason why, you know, we did make the decision to go ahead and invest in that additional manufacturing facility, which allows us to over double our manufacturing capacity and further optimize our footprint at our existing manufacturing locations.
Great. Thanks, Jason. I'll pass it on.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Colin Rusch from Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.
Thanks so much, guys. You know, as you move into Latin America and Europe, I'm just curious about how many customers, you know, are familiar customers or folks that you already have in the pool of customers that you're speaking with for that growth?
Yeah. I can't go into exact details, you know, as far as, you know, international specifics. You know, when you look at the customers, you know, that we're working with, you know, we're really starting out at those utility, you know, developers and owners that we've worked with in North America. The familiarity with Shoals and the product from that perspective is extremely high. We navigate our way through, you know, companies, you know, such as EPCs or the like to be able to support the opportunities that we see in LATAM and even beyond.
Okay. I guess you maybe addressed this earlier, but you know, given what's happening with labor rates and labor availability, you know, at what point do you start rethinking your pricing strategy, and thinking about potentially, you know, raising prices more than just the commodity pass-through?
Yeah. That's a great question. When you look at, you know, what we're focusing on right now is we're focusing on providing value, and making and allowing that value to, you know, grow the company significantly, which you've seen in, you know, backlog and awarded orders, you know, being up almost 100%, you know, average quoting activity being up well over 100%. The key thing here is to continue to support that growth initiative. You are correct.
You know, when you have an environment like, you know, what we're experiencing today, you know, with labor, you know, the way it currently stands, that does allow us to provide even an additional level of value to our customers, specifically considering the fact that we are providing that solution in that full plug-and-play manner.
Great. I'll hop back into queue. Thanks, guys.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Joseph Osha from Guggenheim Partners. Please go ahead.
That's an interesting interpretation of Guggenheim. Hello, folks.
Hey, how's it going, Joseph?
Good. Very well. Thank you. Just to amplify on an earlier question. As you think about this backlog that you're reporting, how have you approached dealing with material pass-throughs? Do you have formal agreements in place that provide for, you know, any additional upside on, you know, copper, aluminum to be passed through to customers? Have you just gone out and hedged all that? How are you thinking about handling your material price inputs going forward? I have one follow-up.
Yeah, no problem at all. When you look at that, I mean, generally we don't hedge, you know, copper or aluminum. And how we handle that is much like, much the same that we've handled it for, I would say, the better part of eight to 10 years, based upon lessons learned, you know, many years ago. We'll go through, we'll quote the project to the customer, and ultimately as that project becomes more mature and gets more advanced, and gets to the point of execution, each time that quote is cycled, we go back and we reference the current commodity pricing. And that particular quote itself is good for seven days.
You know, when we exercise that last revision before the PO is cut, we go through and we update the copper and the aluminum, and we pass that information over to our customer with a correlating price, either increase or reduction, depending upon where the commodities are at that point in time. Assuming that PO is exercised within a seven-day period, we've effectively locked our risk from a commodity perspective, you know, because that copper and aluminum is locked over that exact same seven-day duration. If for some reason the PO is delayed, we'll go through another quote cycle to make sure that we're matching our commodities from the last quote to the time that the PO is executed.
Right. If I look at your current backlog, you know, clearly you've got projects in there that you're not gonna deliver on for, you know, a couple of quarters at least. But your customers are comfortable with this kind of series of rolling quotes and whatever that implies in terms of, you know, additional potential upside that they might have to pay to you as if copper prices go further?
Yeah. When you look at the backlog, when those particular projects are executed effectively, we are able to lock in, you know, whether that project, you know, is delivered in, just like, for sake of conversation, you know, two days or two months. We in turn make that commitment to our partners, AKA vendors, at that same level that our partners' customers made a commitment to us.
Okay, great. Thank you. Then just more of a housekeeping question here, just as we kind of dial in our EBITDA. Wondering if you can let us know for 2022 roughly how we should think about D&A and stock comp? That's it from me.
Well, depreciation and amortization will be about what it was this year. The uptick based upon the capital expenditures we made the prior year, but won't be a major change. Even though we invested heavier than historically last year, it's still relatively low for a business. We're not very capital intensive for D&A. As far as the other question I believe was stock-based comp?
Yes.
Jason, do you wanna handle that or do you want me to?
Go ahead, Phil.
Okay. I mean, we're looking on that. There will be, you know, relatively consistent year-over-year. One thing we are seeing is that, of course, we're growing the number of people we have, the number of employees in the organization, so that will tend to drive it up. But we'll also run more of a normalized, since we're now a normalized and more mature public company of more cash-based incentive comp rather than stock-based.
One of the things I want to add.
Okay. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.
No, go ahead, please.
Yeah. I see about $11 million in stock comp and about $10 million in depreciation for our calendar 2021. I can think of those as kind of being, you know, moderate increases off of those numbers for 2022?
We don't give details in those, but yes, I would think in general, yes.
Okay. Thank you very much.
One other thing I wanna clarify, since obviously it's a flow down into EBITDA, you know, from a question earlier that Brian had asked, you know, he had asked about gross margins, you know, being at 30%. We are not going to be, you know, at anywhere near that particular level, from a gross margin perspective.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Mark Strouse from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Yeah, good evening. Thanks for taking our questions. I think most of them have been asked. I did wanna come back and ask a slightly different way of approaching Phil's question. When I look at the backlog, are you able to say kind of the materiality threshold at least of what the EV charging portion of that is? And as we get throughout the year and hopefully that business becomes bigger as we expect, what are your plans as far as starting to break that out and changing your disclosures a bit?
Yeah. Hey, Mark. Jason here. So, you know, when you look at it from an EV perspective, again, you know, as we stated before, we're not breaking that down specifically right now. You know, as we start to get a good cadence, you know, we'll definitely take into consideration. You know, when you look at where we are, you know, I mean, we're obviously taking orders, shipping orders, you know, the pipeline and quoting volumes, you know, are growing at a very rapid pace. You know, the reality is that we're still at the early stages of product introduction. It's one of the key focuses along with our other growth initiatives that we're focusing on.
Very excited about what we've been able to accomplish. Absolutely elated with the feedback that we've received from our customers in the market.
Yeah. I'll take the rest offline. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Kashy Harrison from Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.
Good evening, thanks for taking the questions. First one from me, I was wondering if you could maybe just give us an update on the competitive landscape. Wondering if you're seeing any new entrants entering the EBOS space?
Yeah. From a competitive landscape perspective, you know, as far as competitors that are out there, you know, it's pretty much the same as what we've seen, we've talked about in the past. I mean, essentially back in the time that we actually initially went public.
Got it. Just one follow-up on the guidance. Can you give us a sense of how you're thinking about the mix of systems to components during 2022 on the revenue side? Thank you.
I can't give an exact breakdown, but you know, just kind of pointing back to the BLA taking market share, you know, which is one of those slides that we continue to update. You know, it's going to be updated on the investor deck that we have posted on our website. We've seen significant increase just in the last 12 months of over 4x you know, the number of customers that we've converted, and an additional 15 that are currently you know, in that prospects in conversion state. Very excited from that perspective. That's one of the key initiatives that we're focusing on.
What I can tell you is that, you know, the hard work and dedication that our organization, including sales team, has put forth to generate, you know, that type of demand, a meaningful portion of that does come in the form of our full system solutions, as you would expect with those customers, that we're working with.
Got it. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Jeff Osborne from Cowen and Company. Please go ahead.
Yeah, good evening. I had two questions on my side. I was wondering, Jason, if you had any comments on the 8-K that you filed with Dean's departure. I was just curious how you're gonna keep the culture of the company intact with his departure.
Yeah, I mean, from a culture perspective, you know, as you can imagine, a lot of the members that we have on our team have been here for a very long time, which I think really, you know, values, you know, for the culture that we have, you know, within our organization. I feel like he felt like the company was in a great place. You know, the company, you know, actually had a great team. He's been working for, you know, well over 40+ years. He built this company from the ground up and essentially just wanted to take a step back and focus on, you know, other things in life at this point.
Got it. My second question was just on the, can you remind us of the current capacity that you have, what utilization that is? As we think about the new capacity that you're being built, if you could just articulate how much that'll cost to build out, and also when it will be online, that would be helpful.
Yeah. We haven't provided any exact specifics on the current capacity that we have, Jeff. When you look at when this particular facility will be online, you know, we're definitely moving very fast. You know, when you say online, you know, it's kind of difficult to quantify exactly what that is because the reality is we're already occupying that facility, you know, in some magnitude. You know, obviously, as we continue to go through and optimize our other facilities and expand this out, you know, we're going to continue to build in the capacity that's needed to support the significant demand, you know, that we're seeing in the market today.
Got it. I thought you had made comments in the past that you could double your revenue without adding capacity. That's what I was trying to get at, but maybe I'm mistaken.
Yeah. We've not released any updated information in that regard, Jeff, but I guess just to remind everybody, you know, what we did say is that when we closed out calendar year 2020, we had about 1.8 times the available capacity that was required to support that year's system solution products.
Got it. Thank you.
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Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. I guess the first one, just on the BLA products. I think you guys are seeing good traction with the EPC customer community. Just curious if you can update us on discussions with the developers.
Yeah, absolutely. You know, those conversations with developers, you know, and owners, you know, and utilities alike, you know, are key and instrumental because, you know, when you look at that full system BLA solution, you know, it does provide a significant amount of day one value in the labor and material savings that you can see. It also provides significant value over the life of that asset, you know, in the form of increased reliability and reduction in O&M.
You know, working with those, you know, owners and developers has been, you know, one of the key goals that we've been focusing on, and part of the reason why we've seen the success that we've seen and the growth that we've experienced as they started to realize that value proposition of that full system solution.
Okay. I'll leave it there. Thanks, Jason.
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