Solar Carport Tools
Three tools for a finance director, estate manager or sustainability lead working out whether a car park should carry solar: a suitability screen, a sizing and net-cost calculator and a funding checker.
1. Suitability screen
Which car parks suit solar: the checks that rule a site in or out before anyone draws a canopy.
Screen your car park2. Sizing and net-cost calculator
Bays and electricity use in; system size, cost after tax relief, payback and 25-year cash flow out, with every assumption shown.
Open the calculator3. Funding checker
Seven questions sort the live funding and tax routes from the closed ones for your organisation and nation.
Check fundingUse them in this order
Start with whether the car park suits solar at all. The screening guide on which UK car parks actually suit solar covers surface, ownership, lease length, grid capacity and shading, and most sites that fail do so on one of those. If the car park passes, size it. The calculator takes bays and electricity use and returns a system size and a net cost, using the arithmetic in how much power a solar carport generates per bay and how many panels fit over one bay. Then see what the funding and tax position does to that number with the funding checker, which covers the capital allowances, the Workplace Charging Scheme and the business rates position.
What the tools are, and are not
Each tool runs in your browser on the inputs you give it and shows its assumptions. They are planning aids from an independent information site published by SEO-DONS LTD, not quotations, surveys or funding decisions, and we are not an installer. If you send the result with an enquiry, we reply by email.
More to read
Prices are on the cost page, structures and specification on solar carports and sizing for a whole estate on car park solar panels. If the structure already exists, see whether solar can go on an existing carport.
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