Peak generation and peak visitation are the same days. Summer school holidays bring the highest gate numbers, the highest cooling and ride load, and the highest solar output of the year. A canopy on the visitor car park puts the generation on site for exactly those days, and puts shade over a guest's car while they are inside.
What the canopy does for the site
Shade is a guest experience upgrade
Returning to a car that has been in the shade for eight hours in a Queensland summer is the last impression of the day. Very few energy investments are experienced by the customer at all.
3.71 MWp on one surface
About 5.6 GWh a year generated on site, on a single title, with one connection conversation and one construction programme.
Weather cover for arrival and exit
The canopy is waterproofed as standard, so it also covers the walk to the gate in a Gold Coast downpour.
EV charging where cars sit all day
Guests park for a full day, which is the ideal charging dwell time. The canopy is the structure and cable pathway chargers mount to when you want them.
Why this car park
The park's own demand is high through daylight hours, driven by rides, cooling and food and beverage, and it peaks in the same season as generation. Electricity on the canopy is consumed on site behind the meter rather than exported at a lower value.
The canopy drawn below delivers 3.71 MWp, about 5.57 GWh a year on site, for $6.39M of base scope. Installs can be staged section by section so the car park stays usable through the works, which on a trading park in peak season is the deciding constraint.
Drawn and priced
The canopy below was drawn to scale on the actual car park and priced through our engine. Figures are preliminary, ex-GST, subject to site assessment: 3.71 MWp, about 5.57 GWh a year generated on site, for $6.39M of base scope.
Dreamworld and WhiteWater WorldCoomera, QLD
Prelim PP-AL-001
3.71 MWpSystem size
~5.57 GWh/yrGenerated on site
15,439 m²Canopy coverage
4,802Solar modules
$6.39MBase scope, ex-GST ($1.72/W)
156Structural columns
Drawn on the main visitor car park. EV charging is not in this price and can be added.
Base scope is the canopy structure, install, civil, lighting, safety and engineering. EV charging is shown as an option. Site transport, trenching and battery are not included and can be added.
Proven on trading sites
Canyon Solar factory-builds solar canopies that turn large car parks into onsite generation and shade. We have delivered them for Woolworths, across six sites, and for IGA, AstraZeneca and CSIRO. At Wests Illawarra Leagues Club we installed 365 kWp over the club's main car park in its busiest season, across two staged installs, with four EV chargers and no parking bays lost.
IGA Baranduda, VIC. A Canyon Solar delivery.
The Grand Canyon
For a lot this size the standout design is the Grand Canyon: a continuous, full-coverage canopy with no gaps over the driving lanes. It gives the highest solar density in our range and a clean roofline that reads as a designed part of the site. Installs can be staged where sections of the car park must stay open.
Grand Canyon, a continuous full-coverage canopy with integrated battery and EV charging.
Any site, in minutes
This site took minutes to draw. We can do the same for any other asset you hold, live: draw the canopy to scale on the car park, size it, and price it while you watch. We can also run the full economics on your own inputs, whatever tariff, self-consumption, finance structure or target return you want to test.
How to proceed
Own it (CAPEX)
You hold the canopy and all of the generation, on a 30-year design life. Staged if that suits the site.
Hardware as a service (OPEX)
$0 upfront. A service agreement arranged through an independent finance partner; you keep the generation and pay from the savings.
Every canopy is engineered, factory-built and installed by the team that has delivered 16 projects across three states.
A short working session to confirm the staging sequence against the park calendar, validate the layout on the actual title boundary, and firm the tariff and self-consumption assumptions with Dreamworld's own load data.