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Solar Carports

Solar carports and solar pergolas: what they really cost, what you can actually buy, and which parts you are not allowed to install yourself.

A solar carport is the answer when the roof is wrong: shaded, north facing, too old to drill, or already spoken for. Park under the array instead. The catch nobody puts in the headline is that there is no such thing as a solar carport you buy in one box. What you are really buying is three separate things, a structure, a racking system, and panels with an inverter, and the second and third of those are the same gear covered across gear and components. These guides price all three honestly, name the one purpose built product on the market, and are straight about where the do it yourself line sits, because in most states the wiring half is not yours to do. If the array is feeding a battery rather than the meter, the sizing calculator covers that side.