Standing Seam Metal Roof With Integrated Solar Panels

With clip fastened standing seam roofs the panels can be clamped onto the raised seams so that no or very few actual roof penetrations are necessary.

Standing seam metal roof with integrated solar panels.

Unisolar panels are 15 5 inches wide and fit perfectly into a 16 standing seam panels and are attached or laminated with special butyl adhesive that is on the back of each uni solar pv panel. Thin film pv systems are flexible lightweight and adhere directly to the pan of a metal standing seam roof. Proseam is a standing seam metal roof panel suitable for residential commercial and light industrial properties. Traditional solar panels can be integrated nicely with our metal roofs.

Standing seam is great for mounting of the pv solar panels no need to drill any holes in the roof as pv panels are mounted onto the seams of the metal roof with the help of s 5 brackets. In that case the pv system is actually integrated into the building design and is almost unnoticeable on the roof. The six green homes in this community in hinesburg vermont are all positive energy buildings producing as much energy as they use over the course of the year. The south face of this standing seam metal roof is overlaid with a four kilowatt array of thin film solar panels.

The series connection of modules is made under the roof sheeting between the battens. Based on the long established principle of fully supported metal roofing the panels are secretly fixed with no penetrative or through fasteners offering a completely watertight roof system. Unisolar thin film pv laminates were originally designed to fit into and be integrated with standing seam metal roof panels. This allows your solar installation to look discrete and natural.

Electricity is produced in a thin photovoltaic layer that covers the metal sheet. The installation is as easy as the installation of standard standing seam metal roof. Metal roofing provides the best platform for the building integrated photovoltaic bipv system. With a conventional roof such as asphalt shingles you would need to drill holes into the roof in order to mount the panels.

Unlike conventional solar panels thin film solar on metal roofs lays flat against the roof in direct contact. A standing seam metal roof integrated with solar panels is a powerful combination of durability longevity energy efficiency and most importantly value for the money. Uni solar is the most well known manufacturer of thin film solar for standing seam roofs. Roofit solar modules are building integrated photovoltaic bipv construction elements that replace the conventional roofing and facade materials.

With other types of metal roofs penetrations of the roof will be necessary but. Solar installation on a classic metal roof.