Business owners who have parking lots adjacent to their buildings have a huge square footage footprint making no money for the investment. Building a Solar Carport canopy over a percentage of the parking lot is a wonderful way to turn that zero producing square footage into a profit center.
Not only will all the solar photovoltaic panels, that create the cover for the carport, be making clean unlimited renewable electric energy for the building, it also becomes a differentiator with customers. Having covered parking spaces that shade the customers’ cars from snow in the winter and the blazing sun of the summer will create preference for your building. Plus, with electric vehicle (EV) adoption increasing rapidly the option of EV charging stations at the carport, powered by the sun, is a tangible advantage creating customer preference and if a pay as you use charger system is installed it becomes another profit center for the building.
All in all, with the Federal government paying 30% of the total cost of your carport, accelerated depreciations on the investment reducing the ROI, clean free electricity for the building to consume, and increased consumer preference…choosing a solar carport is a great investment for any commercial property.
