People know solar is beneficial. Now it can be beautiful, too. Installed in visible places, Spotlight Solar structures make clean energy, engage people, and demonstrate their owners' care for the environment.
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Increase your return on solar.
Spotlight Solar structures incorporate beautiful solar panels in sculptural forms designed to inspire. Your customers will endorse you, employees will gain pride, and tenants will prefer your property.
Your example will lead other people to consider their own choices. We call this Return on Visibility (click for more).
Beautiful machines
Industrial design, engineering, and precision manufacturing are used to create solar energy structures that are both striking and productive. People call them solar trees. We say "art meets clean energy machine."
Spotlight products are artistic, not art projects
- flexible configurations
- many accessories to make it your own
- high performance coatings in over 200 colors
- integration with beautiful, efficient solar panels
- qualified for wind speeds up to 175 MPH
- assembly can be completed in one day
Variety, flexibility
Sites differ and tastes differ. Our products come in a range of styles and sizes, all with built in flexibility to make it uniquely yours.
Accessories and visitor engagement
Place attention-getting solar structures on your property to tell the larger story of your efforts in sustainability, and to encourage others to do likewise. To make your Spotlight Solar “trees” more engaging, we offer a number of options.
Integrated lighting, seating, and counters with places to plug in. Branding, signs leading to online content, full graphic wraps, and even augmented reality. Please see product detail pages for Lift, Curve, Trestle, and Industry.
Envision solar “trees” on your place in augmented reality
Get the SolarView app and you’ll be able to experience a Spotlight Solar structure on your property in about 30 seconds. Walk around it, get underneath, zoom in.
How to buy
Spotlight makes the great looking structures. Solar integrators add solar panels, electrical equipment, and installation services.
Spotlight Solar partners with top-notch integrators, selected for expertise in solar technology and installation in commercial and public property settings. We train Certified Integrators on the specifics of our products and installation. Contact Spotlight Solar for a recommendation of a Certified Integrator in your area.
Installed pricing is up to the integrator and is based on product selected, site conditions, and other factors. You can expect a fully installed Spotlight solar system to be in the range of $40,000 to $80,000 depending on the product chosen and quantity. Tax credits and recoveries can reduce this about 45%.
Frequently answered questions
How soon will the system pay for itself? The economic benefit of Spotlight Solar structures comes primarily through Return On Visibility, the value of showing your clean energy stewardship to your stakeholders. The structures do reduce your power bill, and deliver tax benefits, but they are primarily an investment in communication and public engagement.
How much power do they make, and what do you do with the energy? Solar tree capacities range from 2 to 7kW. You can do a lot with that energy, but it is not meant to be a primary source for a commercial property. Normally, our structures are interconnected at the closest electrical panel, and the energy offsets needs of a building. Often, they've been set up to power electric vehicle charging stations. One Lift can make enough energy to run an electric vehicle for 18,000 miles per year.
Do your solar trees qualify for tax credits? Our structures are solar equipment (albeit better looking than most). Thus, installations have qualified for tax credits which apply to solar systems, like those provided by the Inflation Reduction Act. And Spotlight Solar products are made in America, qualifying for bonus incentives. The typical range of cost recovery is 40% - 60% within one year. But we're not your CPA, so please ask them to verify.
What is the lead time for installation? Please allow eight weeks from order to installation date of structures. As well, plan for permitting and in-ground concrete foundations.
How long does an installation take? After foundations are in, our structures take about one day to install. Completing electrical connections may take another day.
Do you design custom products? Our products are meant to be flexible enough for most needs and repeatable enough to keep cost down. That said, maybe we've missed a big opportunity. If so, give us a call.
Can we install at our home? Spotlight Solar products are intended for commercial and public space, having a public-art-meets-clean-energy-machine aesthetic. If that works for your home, it’s OK with us.