Solar carport overhead installation: Approval for overhead installations with transparent double glass / glass-glass solar modules

Transparent double glass / glass-glass solar modules with approval for overhead installations - Image: Xpert.Digital

The real problem is that not all modules have building authority approval for this. To be more precise, almost none. We currently know of two solar module manufacturers who have now received approval for overhead approval. The penetration resistance (testing of invasiveness) and residual load-bearing capacity of the modules were tested. The latter must be able to withstand the loads that occur (e.g. snow). Even in the event of damage, a minimum level of load-bearing capacity must still be guaranteed. If the glass breaks, the solar modules must be protected against falling fragments.

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• Background knowledge: What about building permits for solar systems, solar carports and solar modules?

The most impressive advantage of glass is its durability and virtually indestructible properties due to the elements.

With a general building authority approval (abZ) from DIBt, interesting overhead solar carport installations and terrace overhead glazing as well as solar facades and balcony power plants with transparent double-glazed solar modules can be installed. This approval allows the unrestricted use of the transparent solar modules.

Everything is possible, including large parking lot roofing, industrial hall roofing or sports facility and sports arena roofing.

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• What you need to consider with transparent glass modules for solar

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A solar system consists of solar modules that are attached to a support structure (mounting system/substructure for solar modules). The solar system produces direct current, which is converted into alternating current via inverters and fed into the electricity and/or house network.

In short, a solar system has great financial advantages. Even if the initial costs are very high, the saving of electricity costs by using self-current will continue to equalize in the future due to the increasing consumption of the large number of technical devices and the expected increase in the area of ​​e-mobility. In addition, the electricity can be “interconnected” for later and more sophisticated electricity stores for later, in order to resell it as an additional source of income to third parties.

The basis and essential element of every solar system is the support structure. This applies to the substructures for the various rooftop systems and types of roofs such as flat or pitched roofs or the assembly systems for open-air and ground-mounted systems, also known as solar parks. Not to forget the solar carport systems!

Company parking lots, parking garages, supermarkets, shopping centers and all the larger ones such as Park & ​​Ride parking lots are affected by where the solar obligation applies in the future for the affected federal state.

An important area for transparent glass-glass / double-glass solar modules is solar carports. While one can still speak of a standard solution for single and double carports with photovoltaics (here too, due to structural differences in the relevant main and secondary buildings, which require a special solution in individual cases), individual solutions are always necessary for row carports. This starts with the different access routes, different room layouts and differences in the respective lanes.

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• More green electricity from solar carports – the solar filling station of the future
• Solar carports with electricity storage as solar charging stations for electric cars