Reshaping the Solar Industry

Introducing Sunspan’s Patented Tube Technology

Simple. Smart. Designed to generate more energy with less effort.

The aerodynamic design reduces wind loading to cut mounting cost, the biggest expense, by 30-50%.

Sun tracking with no moving parts yields 15-25% more energy.

The round shape naturally resists soiling, reducing real-world losses by 5-10%.

New Solar Architecture

The Panel is the Structure.

Inspired by suspension bridges, cables hold the tubes and are the key element stabilizing the entire system.

New Applications Made Possible

Solar in parking lots

Sunspan provides full coverage over parking areas using a lightweight support structure that drives down the cost to provide on-site power for buildings and EVs. Just the parking lots in the US could host 750 GW of Sunspan panels.

Co-location with crops

The solar tubes cast just the right amount of shade to increase growth while generating electricity. The technical potential in the US is multiple Terawatts.

Self-buoyant arrays

No separate floats needed to cover bodies of water and generate the World’s lowest cost energy.

The Impact of Sunspan Solar Systems

More Energy

Panel design increases energy production.

Faster payback

Lower cost mounting boosts ROI.

Carbon Reduction

Meet sustainability targets with on-site clean energy.

Team

Chris Barnes

PhD in Physics, Stanford, BS, Yale
10 years solar experience, 3 patents
Amazon, SolFocus, XJet
David Frost

MBA, Harvard; MS, Stanford; BA, Columbia
20 yrs. experience in renewable energy
Frontier Wind (GE), PPM Energy (Avangrid)