The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Strategic Solar Energy a second patent on their solar shade structure, which is known as a PowerParasol.

 

The first-of-its-kind solar structure, created by Chandler, Arizona-based Strategic Solar Energy, can shade acres of land, transform public spaces, drive customer service and satisfaction and generate megawatts of clean energy connected to the grid and close to where it is used.

 

Unique features of the PowerParasol include a large contiguous solar panel platform that is elevated above the ground, and unique vertical supports that give PowerParasol strength and support while creating elegant structures that integrate into the surroundings.

 

The PowerParasol provides much needed shade, while at the same time allowing plants, grass and trees to thrive under the structures.  The PowerParasol’s height and unique design preserve sight lines and create open, airy spaces.

 

“There is no other structure built this way or that delivers what a PowerParasol can deliver,” said Tom Headley, CEO of Strategic Solar Energy. “This second patent provides even greater protection of PowerParasol’s innovative design and technology.”

 

PowerParasols are currently in use in three locations at ASU’s Tempe campus (Lot 59 near Sun Devil Stadium, outside the Memorial Union and along Gammage Parkway), at a Fry’s Food Store on 27th Avenue and Bell Road in Phoenix, at a KOA RV park in Tucson, and at Empire Southwest’s headquarters in Mesa.

 

In each of these installations, PowerParasol has taken solar off the rooftop, out of solar farms and into the community, has enhanced the land it’s built on, and has generated clean energy with no increase in the environmental footprint. Any excess generation can be integrated into the local utility grid, bringing another source of solar power to the community.

 

Strategic Solar Energy 

www.powerparasol.com