Your trusted solar carport partner
Introduction
Are you a business looking to reduce electricity costs and carbon emissions and take steps towards your sustainability targets, all while optimising your existing car park? You’re in the right place.
Airports, retail shopping, leisure centres, offices and commercial and industrial premises all have ideal parking areas for a solar carport installation. But no matter what industry your business is in, we enable you to switch to cheaper, on-site renewable energy with zero capital outlay. Our PPA fully funded solar carport solution will help your business unlock immediate cost and carbon savings, while enabling a greener future.
Our expert team take care of everything, from design, planning and funding through to construction. We tailor a solar carport system to suit your car park’s specific needs and can be integrated with EV charging points to meet future demand from employees and customers. Once complete, we’ll operate and maintain the solar carport to ensure optimum performance all year round.
The benefits of our fully funded solar carport for your business
Optimise your car park to generate on-site renewable energy
Save up to 25% on your electricity bills for 30 years
Reduce your carbon footprint and hit sustainability targets
Future-proof your parking for EV charging demand
Provide year-round protection for staff and visitor vehicles
Delivered end-to-end by Solarpark Energy
Why choose Solarpark Energy?
Tailored to your needs
We’ll develop bespoke solar carports to meet your specific site needs and energy-saving goals.
In-house expertise
From design, planning, full funding and construction through to O&M, we've got you covered.
Best-in-class technology
We only use Tier 1 solar PV technologies for maximum yield and superior performance.
Your long-term energy partner
We’ll reduce your electricity bills by up to 25% and provide long-term energy security, unlocking immediate cost savings.
Fully funded, with zero upfront cost
Enjoy the significant benefits of switching to cheaper, renewable electricity without capital expenditure.
Solarpark Energy examples
Office solar carport
- Parking spaces covered: 100
- Solar panel carport area: 1,152m2
- Electricity saving per year: £33,500
- Electricity bill savings over 30 years: £1,550,000
- Carbon emission savings per year: 475 tonnes
- Carbon emission savings over 30 years: 14,250 tonnes
Leisure centre solar carport
- Parking spaces covered: 450
- Solar panel carport area: 5,184m2
- Electricity saving per year: £150,000
- Electricity bill savings over 30 years: £7,100,000
- Carbon emission savings per year: 2,145 tonnes
- Carbon emission savings over 30 years: 64,350 tonnes
Airport solar carport
- Parking spaces covered: 1500
- Solar panel carport area: 70,280m2
- Electricity saving per year: £502,000
- Electricity bill savings over 30 years: £23,500,000
- Carbon emission savings per year: 7,150 tonnes
- Carbon emission savings over 30 years: 214,500 tonnes
NB: Outputs dependent on location, carport design, orientation and your current rate that you’re paying for your electricity. CO2 and cost savings may vary.
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Solar carport savingsFAQs
Through a PPA agreement, Solarpark Energy will manage the design, planning, construction, and the ongoing operation and maintenance of the solar carport system in your car park.
In return, your business simply pays Solarpark Energy for the green electricity generated by the solar carport system at a competitive rate, 25% lower than current grid prices. Our Power Purchase Agreement fixes the cost for the 30-year term, unlocking immediate savings and long-term energy security, whilst preserving capital. Solarpark Energy will own, insure, and operate the solar carport.
All you need to do is provide our expert team with some basic details about the location and size of your business’ car park, along with your electricity consumption data and current pricing from your energy supplier.
We’ll then carry out a desktop feasibility of your site so we can provide a high-level assessment of your car park’s viability for a solar carport fully funded by Solarpark Energy.
By providing us with your electricity usage and cost per kWh we’ll estimate system size and output, and the anticipated electricity cost and carbon emission savings. We’ll also advise on planning permission, grid connection and the p/kW PPA price your business will pay for the renewable energy consumed.
Yes you can. The agreement is also made with your landlord, when your business leaves the premises, the solar carport system will transfer to the new tenant or the property owner.
A solar carport works in the same way as a roof or ground mounted solar PV system does. The renewable energy generated flows through the connecting cables, through an inverter, into a distribution board and on to where there is energy demand.
The unique difference is that solar carport systems offer the additional advantage of year-round covered parking and future-proof electric vehicle charging infrastructure can be integrated.
A commercial solar carport installation at your car park will typically require planning permission from the local authority. It will also need permission from the local distribution network operator (DNO) who will determine if a connection can be made to the local grid.
With Solarpark Energy’s fully funded solution, our expert team takes care of everything from coordinating pre-design technical surveys, to managing the planning applications and gaining the required grid connection approval.