Solar Car Shades
Integrated Solutions to Elevate Your Facilities
Solar carports offer businesses a cutting-edge, sustainable solution to maximize their parking areas. They shield vehicles from the weather, lower carbon emissions and energy expenses, and improve the daily experience for both employees and customers.
Engineered to enhance long-lasting aesthetic appeal, Smart solar carports can also include integrated EV chargers, an increasingly essential feature for contemporary workplaces and destinations.
At Smart, we are dedicated to providing solutions that bring real value to your property. By collaborating with top-tier suppliers, we guarantee premium results customized to meet your unique requirements.
Why Install Solar Car Shades?
Installing solar car shades provides dual benefits: protecting vehicles from harsh weather conditions while generating clean, renewable energy. These shades reduce energy costs by harnessing solar power and can even supply electricity for nearby facilities or charging stations. Additionally, they promote sustainability, making them an eco-friendly and practical solution for businesses and homes alike.
Take advantage of substantial electricity savings during the day with the energy produced by your solar carport.
Expand your solar PV capacity when roof space falls short of meeting your energy needs.
Solar carports help lower carbon emissions and support the achievement of sustainability objectives.
As a highly visible sustainability solution, solar carports highlight your clean energy efforts while offering social benefits by providing shelter and charging options for users.
Enhance your property’s value by installing innovative sustainable infrastructure. Solar carports are a smart investment, offering long-lasting durability and requiring minimal maintenance.
EV chargers can be seamlessly incorporated into solar carport structures, with the enclosed and secure design safeguarding the charging equipment from weather and potential damage.
Customisable Designs to Suit Your Space
Single Row Parking
For businesses or workplaces with restricted parking areas, a single-row solar carport provides an efficient solution by maximizing parking capacity while generating solar power. This setup enables companies to offer shaded parking spaces, combined with the advantage of renewable energy production.
Nose to Nose
This configuration enhances the solar panels' exposure to sunlight, ensuring that a greater surface area remains exposed throughout the day. As a result, the electricity generation capacity of the solar carport is maximized, making it more efficient.
East-West
An east-west orientation enables the solar panels on the carport to capture sunlight efficiently throughout the day. This alignment optimizes exposure to both morning and evening sun, boosting overall energy production when compared to a traditional south-facing configuration.
Contact our experts for a no-obligation chat to see which solution best suits your carpark.
Solar Car Shade Case Study: Breaker's Country Club
Solar car shades - procured through a Power Purchase Agreement - helped Breakers improve their club's aesthetics, provide comfort and convenience to patrons and lock in affordable energy pricing with $0 upfront.
"We wanted to make sure we could budget what our power costs would be for the coming years. This project is in line with our ongoing commitment to becoming more sustainable."
Frequently Asked Questions
There are various funding options for solar car shade projects, such as Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and specialized financing. Investing in long-lasting, attractive infrastructure that enhances and modernizes your property is generally a wise investment, increasing its value for the future.
Smart solar car shade structures are equipped with water management systems that keep the area beneath the canopy dry. With the right design, rainwater can be collected in tanks, supporting the system's stability and offering grey water for cleaning and garden use.
While it's more realistic to save money rather than generate profit from your solar investment due to current feed-in tariffs (FIT), it is possible to feed power into the embedded network or microgrid of your solar car shades for a financial return.
If you're considering adding 'pay-per-use' EV charging to your solar car shade structure, this can also offer an additional income stream.
Contact our experts today for more detailed guidance.
Our designs are crafted to ensure that your solar car shade structure doesn’t intrude on available parking spaces, allowing businesses to maintain the same number of parking spots after the project is completed.
No, nearly all types of solar panels can be used in our designs. Like all Smart projects, we take an equipment-agnostic approach to designing solar car shade systems, ensuring the highest quality materials with the best value are selected for your structure.