Looking for a parking space roof with solar/photovoltaics: building a solar carport or planning a system in Mülheim, Leverkusen, Solingen or Herne?
Published on: October 4, 2021 / Update from: October 11, 2021 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
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Individual solutions for your solar roofing of sealed and open parking areas with solar carports
The so-called solar carport requirement has already been introduced in three federal states. These include North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
In Baden-Württemberg, the requirement applies from 75 open parking spaces. In North Rhine-Westphalia from 35 open and commercial parking spaces and in Rhineland-Palatinate from a parking space for 50 vehicles.
The solar carport requirement should be the starting signal for the end of a “concrete monoculture” of sealed parking areas towards multifunctional and modular parking diversity.
With the generation of electricity, the incentive should now be created to have the side effect of protection against weather influences through the necessary solar roofing of the parking areas. Optionally with power storage and charging options for potential refueling or charging customers. The solar carports create a decentralized business model for and with fuel customers who were previously part of the monopoly of centralized gas stations. With the government-mandated switch from vehicles with combustion engines to electric vehicles, anyone who provides appropriate parking space will be able to participate in the “gas station” business model in the future. Whether shopping center or food discounter.
Other customer loyalty potential included, such as: B. Introduce regular customer discounts when shopping. “Shopping while shopping” is the principle that is coming and is already being practiced in some cases.
But company parking spaces for customers and employees also open up new opportunities and potential for loyalty and, above all, cost reduction for the fleet.
Our photovoltaic solutions for roofing open parking areas are modular and scalable:
- Quick and easy assembly
- Stable strip foundation as collision protection
- Individually customizable design (color, materials, surface, size, etc.)
- Installation of charging stations and inverters is possible at any time
- Scalable & modular: Available as a single, double or arbitrarily scalable row carport
- Can even be used in the standard version for very high wind and snow loads (s k = 2.2 kN/m²)
- Extra large and wide parking spaces and very easy parking thanks to W-shaped supports
- High-quality design for sophisticated and long-lasting requirements: Hot-dip galvanized steel construction (DIN EN 10346, DIN EN 1461)
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How many new registrations of electric cars are there worldwide by model?
Cumulative new registrations of selected electric car models – Image: Xpert.Digital
Tesla's Model 3 is the best-selling electric car in the world - as of December 2020, a total of around 813,000 Model 3s were sold worldwide. The Nissan Leaf follows in second place with around 494,800 units.
Cumulative new registrations of selected electric car models
- 812,900 Tesla Model 3
- 494,800 Nissan Leaf
- 308,700 Tesla Model S
- 277,100 Renault Zoe
- 255,500 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
- 225,000 Toyota Prius PHEV
- 205,600 BAIC EC Series
- 203,800 BAIC EU Series
- 180,600 Tesla Model X
- 179,400 Chevrolet Volt PHEV
How high is the proportion of petrol and diesel in new car registrations?
New petrol and diesel car registrations in Germany – Image: Xpert.Digital
Proportion of new registrations of passenger cars with gasoline or diesel engines in Germany from January 2016 to May 2021: In May 2021, around 37.7 percent of newly registered passenger cars were equipped with a gasoline engine. This corresponds to a total of around 86,900 vehicles and an increase of 1.1 percent compared to the same month last year.
New registration: First-time registration and registration of a brand-new vehicle with a license plate in Germany. Vehicles that have already been registered at home or abroad are not included. The values for the previous months were taken from the corresponding previous publications.
Who is planning to modernize or purchase a new photovoltaic system?
People in Germany who are planning to modernize or purchase a new solar system (photovoltaic system) according to their living situation in comparison with the population
People with planned modernization of a solar system depending on their living situation - Image: Xpert.Digital
According to projections, around 3.31 million people in Germany were definitely planning to modernize or purchase a new solar system/photovoltaic system in 2020. In this group of people, around 71.1 percent of people lived in their own house. Meanwhile, around 36.8 percent of the population lived in their own house.
People with planned modernization of a solar system depending on their living situation
Population
- 36.8% – Live in their own house
- 7.4% – Live in your own condominium
- 55.8% – Live as a rent/sublet
People who are definitely/maybe planning to modernize their solar system/photovoltaics
- 71.1% – Live in their own house
- 6.3% – Live in your own condominium
- 22.6% – Live for rent/sublet
How is the daylight business going?
Generating electricity from daylight – Image: Fit Ztudio|Shutterstock.com
The Chinese company Jinko Solar made around $4.3 billion in sales in 2019 from the sale of photovoltaics and feed-in systems. With Canadian Solar, JA Solar and Yingli, three other at least partly Chinese companies are among the solar companies with the highest sales worldwide, as the Statista graphic shows. The German company SMA Solar Technology also generated sales of over one billion US dollars in 2019.
The share of solar energy in total electricity generation from renewable energy sources is increasing every year. In contrast to wind energy, for example, photovoltaic systems do not require a lot of construction effort as they can easily be placed on the roofs of existing or new buildings. This is also the plan of Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder - he has decided that photovoltaics should be installed on every new building in Bavaria from 2021. The requirements initially only apply to commercial buildings, but from 2022 this will also apply to private construction projects.
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Was the year 2020 a record number of hours of sunshine for high electricity feed-in from photovoltaics?
Sunshine hour record in spring 2020 – @shutterstock | Maradon 333
The weather records in Germany have never recorded as many hours of sunshine in the months of March, April and May as in spring 2020 - according to the German Weather Service, it was the sunniest spring since records began in 1951. The month of April in particular had around 294 hours of sunshine with plenty of sunshine and gave the share of photovoltaics in electricity feed-in in Germany top values overall. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports, this was 17.2% in April 2020 and, together with wind power (24.2%), represented the largest part of the grid feed-in from renewable energy sources. In total, 55.6% of the total electricity volume was fed in from renewable energy sources.
When sunlight is converted into electricity, it is called photovoltaics. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems calculated for 2019 that photovoltaics covered 8.2% of gross electricity consumption in Germany with an electricity generation of 46.5 terawatt hours, while renewable energies totaled 43%. In addition to professional photovoltaic operators, private households or individuals who operate photovoltaic systems together (so-called citizen solar systems) can also feed solar energy into the grid and benefit from it.
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Are there roof-penetration-free solar substructures for pitched roofs without 'damaging' the roof membrane?
Roof Penetration Free Crossbar System – @Xpert
Sloped gable and monopitch roofs, which are designed with bitumen or foil covering, have so far been difficult or very difficult to implement without roof penetration. With the new METIS mounting system from T.Werk, you can now easily implement PV projects on these roofs. The modules are installed parallel to the roof in a cross-rail system with ballasting. Roof penetration is not necessary for this. The modules simply need to be additionally secured against slipping (slope drift) on the ridge or eaves.
The following options are available:
- When the roof surfaces are oriented east/west, the module fields on each side of the roof lift each other up. Actio = Reactio. The downhill forces then balance each other out. Execution using aluminum flat material or aluminum perforated tape.
- Attachment to an attic. For example, by using an aluminum rail with screw anchors, hanger screws or dowels. The module field is then secured to this rail with flat aluminum material or aluminum perforated tape.
- Attachment to the ridge or ridge purlin. Similar to the attachment as with the parapet, only here we need hanger screws or solar fasteners and then have to seal them accordingly. Roof penetration is then required at a few points.
- Specific special solutions that can only be shown after the project has been viewed.
As a partner of T.Werk, we are happy to support you with the planning and design of the system.
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Can online software help communities advance energy transition projects?
Online software for the energy transition – @shutterstock | Robert Kneschke
TRAILstarter software is designed for communities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants - online tool can be used free of charge at www.trail-energie.de - TRAILplus with additional options will be published at the end of June.
- TRAIL helps smaller Thuringian communities to determine their energy needs and initiate energy transition projects
- TRAILstarter software is designed for communities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants
- Online tool can be used free of charge at www.trail-energie.de
- TRAILplus with additional options will be released at the end of June
The state energy agency ThEGA has published “TRAILstarter” with partners from Thuringian science and business. The free online software is available at www.trail-energie.de and is primarily intended to help communities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants to optimize their own energy supply and reduce energy costs. In rural areas, the potential for heat supply based on renewable energies such as solar thermal energy or biomass is often particularly great. “However, in smaller communities, some of which have volunteer representatives, there is often a lack of time, specialist knowledge and budget to implement the energy-efficient renovation of public buildings or complex processes such as the development or expansion of the local heating network,” says ThEGA managing director Professor Dieter Sell. “TRAILstarter is a practical planning aid for local administrations. This means that energy transition projects can be started without the need for complex data collection of the current state or the involvement of external specialist knowledge.” The Federal Ministry of Economics and the Thuringian Ministry of the Environment (TMUEN) funded the project.
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