Enhance your car park with solar power
Parking shades
Are you a car park owner or manager? Mexens designs, finances and installs turnkey solar carport systems. Protect vehicles and users, comply with the APER legislation and generate local, carbon-free electricity — without any investment on your part.
Turnkey project
Compliance with the APER Act
No investment required
Photovoltaic parking canopies: protect your vehicles while generating energy
A photovoltaic canopy is a metal structure topped with solar panels, installed over a parking area. It serves a dual purpose: protecting vehicles and users from bad weather (rain, hail, snow, heatwaves, UV radiation) while generating renewable electricity that is either fed into the grid or consumed on site.
The principle is simple: Mexens finances, builds, and operates the solar power plant installed on your parking canopies. The electricity produced is either fed into the grid or used for self-consumption, generating revenue that fully finances the project. You benefit from a covered, enhanced parking area without using your own capital.
Our canopies are custom-designed: single or double parking rows, perpendicular or angled layouts, with structures adapted for light vehicles, trucks, or buses. Whether you are an industrial company, a local authority, a shopping center, or a transport company, Mexens tailors the project to your configuration and your needs.
Key features of photovoltaic parking canopies
Whether you are an industrial company, a local authority, a shopping center manager, a transport operator, or a farm business, our canopy solution adapts to your activity and the layout of your parking area.
No investment required from you
Third-party financing
Meet the requirements of the local laws
Compliance
Light vehicles, trucks, buses: tailored structures
Custom-made
EV charging stations, LED lighting, video surveillance
Equipment
The benefits for your project
Cost-effective
Mexens covers the entire investment: feasibility study, administrative procedures, construction, and grid connection.
Depending on the project’s profitability, you may benefit from annual rent or an upfront premium. Your parking area is enhanced without any cost on your side.
Comfort & protection
Offer your employees, customers, and visitors sheltered parking all year round.
Canopies protect vehicles from hail, frost, UV rays, rain, and extreme heat — reducing overheating inside the vehicle and the risk of weather-related damage.
Electric mobility
Combine canopies with charging stations for electric vehicles (EVSE).
Mexens supports you in deploying charging infrastructure tailored to the current and future needs of your users, in compliance with the LOM law (Mobility Orientation Law).
Sustainable
Take concrete action in the energy transition by producing low-carbon electricity on your own site.
Strengthen your CSR strategy and improve your image with stakeholders through a visible and measurable commitment to decarbonization.
Bespoke equipment for your car park
In addition to shade structures and solar panels, Mexens offers a range of complementary equipment to maximise the value of your car park:
Electric vehicle charging points (EVCPs)
LED lighting fitted to the underside of the shade structures
CCTV system
Display stand (signage, communication)
Security fencing
Rainwater harvesting
Feed-in to the grid and/or self-consumption
Mexens will take care of your project
Analysis of your car park (area, layout of parking spaces, access, technical constraints), project sizing and assessment of the electrical connection.
Planning permission, surveyors, solicitors — we take care of the whole process.
Foundations, steel structures, roofing (solar panels), connection to the grid.
Operational management of the power station and financial management of its operations throughout the lease term. [New brand] has its own technical teams for preventive and corrective maintenance.
As a member of Soren, we handle the collection, transport and recycling of end-of-life panels.
Solar car park canopy: are you eligible?
Whether you are a manufacturer, a farmer or a local authority, our solutions can be tailored to your needs.
Technical requirements
Landowner
Relevant profiles
Industrial
Transport company
Logistics warehouse
Shopping center
Vehicle security company
Sports or leisure facility
Community
Farmer
Discover our solar-powered car park canopies
With over 1,200 projects in operation across France, Mexens has a proven track record in the design and construction of car park canopies suitable for all types of sites: shopping centres, industrial estates, airports, local authorities and logistics sites.
They chose Mexens for their car park canopies
Why choose Mexens for your car park canopies?
Contact usOur expertise
With over 1,200 projects in operation (including more than 700 buildings), Mexens is your single point of contact from the feasibility study right through to the operation and maintenance of the power plant installed on your car park. A single point of contact, a single point of responsibility, throughout the entire lease term.
Our know how
Mexens has in-house multidisciplinary expertise in development, design, finance, legal affairs, procurement, operations and maintenance. Our expertise across the entire value chain ensures the quality, responsiveness and long-term reliability of your facility.
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Frequently asked questions about photovoltaic car park shades
A photovoltaic canopy is a metal structure fitted with solar panels and installed above a parking area. It protects vehicles from bad weather and heat while generating renewable electricity from solar energy. The electricity is either fed into the grid or used for self-consumption.
Not exactly. A solar canopy is a broader term referring to any structure that uses solar energy (thermal or electrical). A photovoltaic canopy specifically generates electricity using photovoltaic panels. This is the technology deployed by Mexens.
Protection for vehicles against weather-related hazards (hail, heat, rain, UV rays), regulatory compliance (APER law, LOM law), energy valorization of your land, an improved CSR image, and the possibility of deploying electric vehicle charging stations — all with no investment required from you.
The cost varies depending on the size, shape, and layout of your parking area. With Mexens, you have no investment to make: we cover all costs (design, construction, grid connection, and operation). Depending on the project’s profitability, you may benefit from annual rent or an upfront premium.
Mexens invests on your behalf and recovers its investment through the sale of the electricity produced by the solar power plant installed on your canopies. You make your parking area available; Mexens finances, builds, and operates the power plant throughout the entire lease term.
Do you have any other questions?
Contact our teamsAre you planning a solar canopy for a car park?
Do you have a project, an idea or need some advice? Our development managers are here to help you assess the feasibility of your solar shade project.
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