Sika manufactures the metal profiles of agrivoltaic systems to the customer’s drawing: posts, crossbars, module rails and connecting profiles. We don’t install solar plants or sell catalogue structures: we work as a contract manufacturer for structure builders, EPC contractors and installers, who receive profiles with the section, length and holes of their own project. Thanks to certified steel, we can produce profiles longer than standard: an advantage in agrivoltaics, where modules sit high to leave room for crops and farm machinery.
Elevated, vertical and tracker agrivoltaic structures
An agrivoltaic system can use elevated fixed structures that hold the panels above the crop, or vertical agrivoltaics, with upright rows of bifacial modules and crops grown between rows. There are also single-axis trackers that follow the sun during the day. In every case Sika produces the profiles in series to the designer’s drawing, in galvanized steel, Zinc-Magnesium, Magnelis or Aluzinc, to withstand humidity, irrigation and farm treatments.
