Commercial Solar Carport for Irish Businesses
Your roof can’t take solar. Warranties, weight limits, a landlord who won’t sign off. Meanwhile your car park sits idle and your bills climb. A solar carport fixes both: it powers your building by day and charges the EVs parked beneath it.
Funding Options For Irish Businesses
A solar carport is a long-term investment in your site. Resolute manages your SEAI Non-Domestic Solar Grant application end to end, and offers finance to spread the cost. Eligibility is confirmed during your free site survey.
SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Grant
Grant funding on the panels, rising with system size to a maximum of €162,600. We handle the application paperwork on your behalf and hold works until your letter of offer lands.
Spread the Cost
Flexible finance available on Resolute installations. Talk to our team about options that fit your budget and project size.
What Solar Carport Gives Business in Ireland
A solar carport is a covered parking structure with solar panels built into its roof. For businesses whose roofs can’t take an array, whether from structural limits, warranties or rooftop plant, it sits over your existing car park and generates power without touching the building.
Generate Power and Cut Your Bills
Panels on the canopy make electricity from daylight. Use it across your site, store it in a battery, or export the surplus for credit. Because you run through the day, you use most of it yourself, and that is where the real saving sits.
Charge Your Fleet and Staff EVs
Wire chargers straight to the carport and run them on your own solar. Add a battery and you can charge overnight on power stored during the day, cutting what you draw from the grid. It serves fleet, staff and customer vehicles alike.
Shelter Every Vehicle On Site
The canopy shields fleet, staff and customer cars from rain, hail and sun. Vehicles stay cooler in summer and frost-free in winter, and a fleet you own sees less weather wear over its life.
Use Space You Already Have
Your car park is already there, and it is usually the biggest open space you own. A carport turns idle tarmac into a power source without buying land or touching the roof.
Bifacial panels Built Into Your Carport Roof
We fit bifacial (glass-on-glass) panels only, from AE Solar and Longi. They generate from both faces, taking direct light on top and reflected light off the surface below, so each panel yields more per year than a standard single-face panel. Across a car park of hundreds of panels, that gain adds up to a bigger annual return.
Ireland's Leading Solar Engineers
Fifteen years installing across Ireland and Northern Ireland, SEAI-certified, and trusted by major commercial and public sector clients. The same engineering team designs and installs your carport.
25-Year Maintenance Contract
Every Resolute system comes with the option of a 25-year maintenance contract covering scheduled visits, performance monitoring, inverter checks and component replacement for the full panel guarantee period.
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A commercial carport is a capital project, not a plug-in job. Here is how we de-risk it, from the business case to the 25-year contract.
Survey and Business Case
We survey the car park, take one recent bill, and model the return. You see the payback and the grant figure before you commit a cent. If the numbers don’t stack up, we say so.
Load Analysis and Design
We pull twelve months of half-hourly data from ESB Networks and size the canopy to what you burn through the day. The aim is power you use on site, not surplus you export cheap.
Structural and Planning Engineering
A canopy carries real wind and standing loads. We design the foundations and steel to suit your ground, and confirm whether it needs planning before you are locked in.
Grants, Tax and Grid
We stack every support: the SEAI Non-Domestic grant on the panels, the year-one tax write-off, ZEVI on the chargers, and the ESB connection. Nothing starts until the letter of offer lands.
Build Around Your Operation
We install without shutting you down. Works run in phases or out of hours, with full safety documentation, so staff and customers keep parking throughout.
Monitor Against the Numbers
You get a live dashboard that tracks output against what we promised, plus the optional 25-year maintenance contract. Running several sites? We roll out and report to one standard.
Choose the Size That Fits Your Car Park
Solar carports scale from a small staff car park to a multi-bay canopy across a retail park or logistics yard. Figures below are modelled on Irish PV yield (850 to 950 kWh per kWp per year) and the Eurostat non-household electricity price for Ireland of €0.2552 per kWh (second half of 2025). Grant values are the 2026 SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen amounts. Actual output and payback depend on your site, orientation and how much you use on site, and we model them from your consumption data at survey.
30 kWp
~10 bays
| Annual generation | 25,500 to 28,500 kWh |
| Annual bill offset | €6,500 to €7,300 |
| CO2 offset per year | 7.4 to 8.3 tonnes |
| 2026 SEAI grant | €8,600 |
100 kWp
~33 bays
| Annual generation | 85,000 to 95,000 kWh |
| Annual bill offset | €21,700 to €24,200 |
| CO2 offset per year | 24.7 to 27.6 tonnes |
| 2026 SEAI grant | €22,600 |
18 kW · Triple
~83 bays
| Annual generation | 212,500 to 237,500 kWh |
| Annual bill offset | €54,200 to €60,600 |
| CO2 offset per year | 61.6 to 68.9 tonnes |
| 2026 SEAI grant | €50,100 |
24 kW · Quadruple
~165 bays
| Annual generation | 425,000 to 475,000 kWh |
| Annual bill offset | €108,400 to €121,100 |
| CO2 offset per year | 123 to 138 tonnes |
| 2026 SEAI grant | €87,600 |
Need something bigger?
Systems above 500 kWp can be engineered for large distribution and manufacturing car parks. We advise the best route at survey.
Frequently Asked Questions
The SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Grant funds the solar panels, on a sliding scale up to a maximum of €162,600 for a 1,000 kWp system. A 30 kWp system, for example, draws €8,600. We prepare the application, wait for your letter of offer before any work starts, and file the paperwork for payment.
Yes. Through the Accelerated Capital Allowance, a business writes off 100% of qualifying equipment cost against profits in year one, instead of 12.5% a year over eight years. The equipment has to be on the SEAI Triple E register, and you claim on the net cost after the grant. Your accountant files it on your CT1 return.
Yes, and it is one of the best reasons to build one. Chargers sit under the canopy and run off the panels above. The hardware is funded separately by ZEVI, currently up to 60% of eligible installation cost, and we apply for it alongside your solar grant. The chargers also qualify for the 100% year-one write-off, which stacks with the ZEVI grant.
It comes down to your electricity use and the size of your car park. The grant covers systems from 1 kWp to 1,000 kWp, and SEAI expects the system to be sized for what you use on site rather than for export. We size yours from twelve months of your ESB Networks data at survey. Many commercial sites land between 50 and 350 kWp.
Often, yes. You can apply as the owner, or as a tenant with landlord consent. Because a carport is freestanding and never touches the roof, landlords sign off far more readily than they do for roof works. We help set out who holds the MPRN and who claims the grant and allowances before you apply.
Possibly. The 2022 regulations that made commercial rooftop solar exempt from planning apply to rooftop panels only. A carport is a freestanding structure, so it is assessed for planning on its own merits, and larger canopies often need an application. Sites near an airport or aerodrome, protected structures and conservation areas have tighter rules. We confirm your position at survey.
You appoint an SEAI-registered installer, we apply, and you wait for the letter of offer before any work begins. That offer stays valid for eight months. Your installer applies to ESB Networks to connect the system, which takes at least four weeks, and once the works are documented SEAI pays the grant within four to six weeks.
No. We plan it around a live car park, working in phases or out of hours so you keep the bays you need open. The schedule fits your trading, not the other way around.
Yes. Panels run on daylight, not just direct sun, so they generate all year in Irish conditions. Output is strongest across the longer spring and summer days, when most businesses are busiest.
Scheduled maintenance visits, live performance monitoring, inverter checks, component replacement and full support for the 25-year panel guarantee period.
Yes. We work across the Republic and Northern Ireland from our Dublin base. Northern Ireland line: +44 28 3073 1007.
Book Your Free Carport Site Survey
Five-day turnaround. No obligation. We handle the grant paperwork.
- SEAI-registered site survey and structural assessment of your site
- SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen and ZEVI applications managed end to end
- Canopy design matched to your car park layout and load profile
- Installed and supported by Ireland’s market-leading PV engineering team
- 25-year maintenance contract option
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