Solar Carports for Commercial Parking
Shade for the vehicles below, generation on top, and the provision for charging designed in from the start — not retrofitted later.
Parking stays usable
The structure is laid out around the bays you already have.
Shade that earns
The same footprint shades vehicles and generates power.
Charging reserved
Custom tilt up to 35° available on request.
Local support
Cable route and foundation points fixed at design stage.
Your car park is already a power plant site.
Most commercial plots have a large, unshaded, empty surface that only holds vehicles. A carport puts that footprint to work twice — parking below, generation above.
It also does something a rooftop cannot: it shades the cars. In this climate, a vehicle that sits in direct sun all day comes back to a hot cabin and a slowly fading paint finish. Shade is a service you can offer your staff and visitors, not just a by-product.
And it is the cheapest moment to plan for charging — the day the structure is designed.
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The car park is built as a plain canopy
No cable route, no foundation points, no electrical capacity reserved. It looks finished.
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EV demand arrives
Staff, visitors or a fleet start asking for charging — and it is now a retrofit, not a design input.
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Chargers are added afterwards
The structure has to be opened up, the route has to be found, and the foundations have to be added where there is space.
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The cost is a multiple of doing it up front
Cutting into a finished carport costs far more than leaving room for a cable while it is being built.
Reserve the route at design stage
Whether chargers go in now or in three years, the cable route and foundation points are decided while the structure is still on paper.
Five variables decide your carport
Send us the layout you have in mind and we will size the structure.
Bay count & layout
Single or double row, and how many vehicles the canopy must cover.
Vehicle clearance
The height the canopy needs to clear, including service vehicles.
Wind & roof loading
Open structures catch wind; the canopy is designed for the site's zone.
Charging provision
Chargers now or later — the route is reserved either way.
Module format
Panel size and layout, sized to give useful shade as well as yield.
Two decisions that set your design
Bay layout & clearance
How many bays, single or double row, and the vehicle height the canopy has to clear.
- Layout follows your existing parking arrangement
- Clearance allows for service and delivery vehicles
- Staged construction keeps part of the car park open
Charging provision
Whether chargers are installed now or later, the cable route and foundation points are reserved at design stage.
- Cable route reserved through the structure
- Foundation points identified for future charger posts
- Electrical capacity considered alongside the PV output
Technical specifications
Confirmed values for our standard ground mount system.
| Installtation site | Open field |
| Tilt angle | 5deg or 10deg |
| Solar panel | Framed or frameless |
| Panel orientation | Landscape or portrait |
| Max wind load | Up to 60m/s |
| Max snow load | Up to 1.0kN/m2 |
| Main material | Q235 or Q345 steel |
| Fasterner material | High-grade steel SUS304 |
| Color | Natural |
| Treatment | Hot-dip galvanization or spray coating |
| Service life | 25 years |
| Waterproof | Available |
Built for the sites that actually exist here
From a factory compound to a roadside mini-grid, the constraint is usually the ground and the access — not the module.
- Typical applications
- Office and corporate car parks
- Residential estates and gated communities
- Hotels and hospitality
- Malls and retail centres
- Fleet and staff parking
- What's included
- Bay layout designed around your existing parking
- Structure sized for wind and roof loading
- Charging route and foundation points reserved
- Lighting and signage provisions on request
- Supply only, or installed as part of a turnkey project
Who We Work With
A carport is judged by the people who park under it, and by whoever owns the bill.
Offices & corporate campuses
Staff parking that shades the vehicles and carries part of the daytime load.
Estates & gated communities
Shared parking with the charging route already reserved for residents.
Hotels & malls
Visitor parking where shade and a visible energy commitment both count.
Fleet operators
Depot parking with charging provision built in from the start, not bolted on later.
Send us your car park layout
A rough sketch or a site photo is enough. We will come back with a bay layout and a structure proposal.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Reserving the cable route and foundation points at design stage costs very little. Adding them to a finished carport means reworking the structure and the electrical installation.
In most cases yes — the structure is laid out around your current bays. We work from your parking layout and site photos.
It is normally staged bay by bay so part of the car park stays in service. The programme is agreed before work starts.
It can be built PV-ready and covered later, or completed as a generating carport from the start.
The carport generates; how that generation is used — chargers, building load or storage — is designed with you. We size the electrical provision alongside the structure.