Kingspan Power Canopy41.85kWp Solar PV & Lighting

Kingspan set itself the goal of becoming carbon zero by 2025. Targets like that are not met with efficiency tweaks alone — they require renewable generation actually installed, commissioned and producing. That is where this project came in.

A Power Canopy is a neat answer to a common commercial problem: not every site has spare roof area suitable for solar PV. A canopy structure creates its own south-facing generating surface while doing something useful underneath — sheltering parking, walkways or plant, and carrying the lighting that space needs.

Working in partnership with Raised Access Floors, MARA Electrical was brought in to install and connect the electrical systems — both the solar PV side and the lighting integrated into the canopy itself.

Plenty of commercial sites across Deeside, Chester and Flintshire want solar PV and conclude they cannot have it — the roof is the wrong pitch, the wrong age, already carrying plant, or simply not theirs to modify. A canopy sidesteps all of that.

It also stacks benefits. Car park canopies shelter vehicles and generate; walkway canopies do the same for people. Add the amenity lighting underneath and you have replaced a lighting scheme, added shelter and installed renewable generation in one project rather than three.

From our base in Queensferry on Deeside — a short run along the A548 and A494 from Deeside Industrial Park, Connah's Quay and Chester — we deliver commercial solar panel installation across North Wales and the North West, alongside 21MWp+ of rooftop solar for names including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Primark and the Ministry of Defence.