British Company Romag Tests Solar-Powered Electric Car Parking Bay

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The PowerPark system consists of a panel of Romag’s PowerGlaz photovoltaic modules standing over and above a car parking bay.

The PV panels generate electricity to charge electric vehicles parking underneath, or to feed into the national grid or a building’s power supply when it is not being used to charge up an electric vehicle.

Romag Holidings has already secured a contract with regional development agency One NorthEast to build two prototypes at its own site in County Durham and at Tegrel Engineering in Blaydon on Tyne, where the steel structure used in the product is made.

The company will be targeting owners of car parks including airports, stations, supermarkets, shopping centres, offices and public buildings to take up the product, pointing to government ambitions to encourage the use of electric vehicles nationwide.

Romag, which already produces PowerGlaz panels and building-integrated PV systems at its 30MW capacity production facility in Consett, says the new PowerPark canopy systems will be “very competitive” in price when launched.