Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We’ll take our first question from Steve O'Rourke, with Deutsche Bank.
Steve O'Rourke – Deutsche Bank Securities
Hi thank you. Just a, a first question how should we be thinking about system business gross margin going forward is there, is there a metrics you can kind of give us on this?
Unidentified Company Representative
So, I would say Steve, I thing the best guidance to be up around the impact of the EPC portion of our business on the overall consolidated margins can be found in our analyst slide deck that we represented to you back in June.
Operator
We will take the next question from Sanjay Shrestha, with Lazard Capital Markets
Sanjay Shrestha – Lazard Capital Markets
Good afternoon guys. Just a quick point, I want to make sure I am doing the math right. So, based on the crystal and model ASPs in Q3 and based on what you guys said your shift versus your revenue recognition seems like there is still about, 35 sample watt kind of a difference between pricing. When you guys think of that you start to get a benefit for a higher yield, on a rated KW basis for you guys, and is that sort of a rough number that we should use for 2010 in terms of regardless of what the crystal and price is that should the difference between you guys versus the general crystal and module prices.
Unidentified Company Representative
I would think there is probably two questions in that, I would say question number one. We high light the Sarnia system, we shift actually module versions to other EPC sized or dominantly the blide site here. So, however since we haven't signed a contract as of today, one thing we don't believe it's appropriate to call that out of the reconciliation for the third quarter revenues, it certainly accounted for the amount of modules. As it relates to your second question is there an opportunity to benefit from better product performance in the field better energy yields, we believe the answer to that is yes, we actually will see that these cases are built and in many cases into the financing cases as that we have seen in Europe.
Operator
We'll take our next question from Rob Stone with Cowen and Company.
Robert Stone – Cowen and Company
I wonder if you have any preliminary comments on your, thinking about capacity beyond the Ohio expansion? Thanks.
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