In recent years, solar carports have gained popularity in the field of renewable energy. Solar carports take full advantage of large parking areas, to produce electricity also provide shaded parking to every day users.

In this articles, we’ll go over some key factors to consider when customize your own solar carport mounting system.

First, the size of your solar carport

Finding an available space and determine how much electricity that is able to generate. The best layout will depend on your parking lot and energy needs, depend on the number of rows of parking required. A solar carport are typically one, two or three rows wide. While solar packing lots can be large enough to span dozens of row of parking.

Second, how much space is below your solar carport

Think about how much space exists below the solar panels. The clearance of the solar carport structures will need to be high enough to allow vehicles and other equipment to pass freely underneath. However, if you make it too high, you could unnecessarily run up the cost of your project.

Find a right clearance height that will depend on what types of vehicles you expect to park and pass below the solar canopy. For businesses that typically only receive cars or small trucks, a shorter carport could be considered. However, higher clearance height are requested for fire trucks and ambulances to park and pass.

Third, waterproof or not

It comes with an added cost with waterproof requirement.

Fourth, installation tilt degree

It’s important to install a solar carport that can generate much more electricity, by setting your solar panels at a certain tilt angle for getting maximum power generation and efficiency.

Besides above mentioned, there are some other factors to take into account when installing a solar carport. We suggest you teaming up with experienced and trustable solar racking supplier to help to create a reliable and perfect solar carport mounting system.

Two main solar carport mounting solutions from Art Sign.

Single Post Solar Carport Mounting	Double Post Solar Carport Mounting

Xiamen Art Sign offers custom-designed solar carport mounting systems, solar roof mounting systems, solar ground mounting systems, etc. With more than 16 years experience of designing and manufacturing solar mounting systems., we can be your good partner.