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How much would your car park produce, covered with carports?

You draw them, we measure them.

Draw the outline of your car park, then lay out your carports wherever you want them. The power comes from the modules that fit on what you have drawn: everything is measured on your drawing.

Your car park

The map loads only when you ask for it. First draw the outline of the car park, then the centre line of each carport: what you draw is the line, the width is set afterwards.

The map opens here, when you ask for it.

Your carports

These settings apply to every carport you have laid out. The width is measured on the ground, not along the slope.

What this gives

Computed on the carports you have laid out, with the climate at the centre of your car park.

Modules— Peak power— Annual production— kWh Specific yield— kWh / kWp / year

The conventions behind the calculation

They are written here because a result without its conventions means nothing. On a study, each one is taken again from your site and your equipment.

    What this calculation is not

    • This is not a module layout. Modules are counted on regular rectangles; a lighting column, a tree, a fire hydrant or an inspection chamber will shift a bay on site.
    • The base map is a street map, not an aerial view: parking bays do not appear on it. Draw as closely as you can from what you know of the site; a survey will replace the map, it does not confirm it.
    • No shading is taken into account: no neighbouring building, no tree, and no shadow from one bay onto the next.
    • Nothing is said about the ground. Foundation capacity is settled by a geotechnical survey, and it drives a large share of the cost.
    • Nothing is said about the grid connection: delivery point, trench length, existing substation.
    • Nothing is said about what you will consume . That is what the load curve is about, and that is where the economics are decided.
    • The slope of a carport is set by the structure, not chosen for the sun. At 7° you are far from the annual optimum — that is normal, and it is the trade-off of covering a car park.

    A car park to cover?

    We take this drawing onto your real site: survey, module layout, structure calculated for the wind in your zone, foundations and grid connection.

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