The PHATPORT^TM is a unique product line to Phat Energy, consisting of solar carports, solar patios and other forms of secondary solar structures. It represents what our company is all about-- solar power that works for you, your home, and your lifestyle...the human environment.  The PHATport takes solar off the roof and other hidden places and places it over your head, where it becomes part of the setting.   See an interview of PHAT Energy general Manager Philippe Hartley at Dwell on Design 2009 (c/o buildaroo.com), on the company commitment to the PHATPORT line.

PHATport ^TM 200

Watch PHATport customers speaking about their PHATport 200.

The PHATport 200 is the ultimate design in architecturally striking solar structures. It will grace any residential or small commercial open space. It is designed to be used as a covered solar patio or solar carport , and it hides its power generation role so well as to charm the visitors who stroll underneath it. Modern yet elegant, it can be built as a lean-to or as a free standing structure.  Very adaptable in architectural style, it can add a whole new angle to your backyard, one in which function and form are one.   What a better place than your own outdoor space to celebrate environmental responsibility with financially rewarding design!

The PHATPORT^TM 200 is built around a steele frame that makes up the structural strength of the piece. All wires are hidden, giving visitors the impression of standing under stained glass. As a solar carport, it can be configured as a one or two car structure, and can also be configured for multiple side by side solar carports.

What really makes the PHATPORT^TM 200 amazing is the panel.   Benefitting from our proprietary construction process, the Phatport 200 is built around the physical specifications of Sanyo electronic's bi-facial, translucent and highly efficient HIT Double; in turn, the electronics giant features the PHATPORT^TM 200 on its main marketing pieces for that panel. It uses the most efficient panel on the residential market today-- the Sanyo 200 Bi-facial. When light from the sun hits the panel, it start producing energy like most solar panels do, from the top surface. But it also lets some light through, and then recycles it from the bottom side of the panel, adding another 15 to 20% to the CEC-rated production.    The result? Green energy that returns every penny of your investment from a strking outdoor structure.

Last but not least, the PHATPORT^TM 200 is installed with a proprietary cladding which keeps water from penetrating underneath the panels to the wood framing. That feature also creates a rain-resistant environment underneath the structure.

PHATport™ Design services

PHATport Design services comes out of PHAT Energy's commitment to making striking and innovative suspended structure which can fit in a small residential environment or fill large commercial scale parking lot, even a rooftop spaces. PHAT Energy has agreements with patent holders of various truss systems. For example, we can use a patented tetrahedron design to support the vast majority of today’s solar panel models. With the objectiver of lightness and speed of assembly, our PHATport design team is capable of spanning large distances at minimal cost and space requirement; and we reach that objective with the criteria of style, grace and strength. We are interested in structures that allow a wide range panel orientation and placement, flat or tilted. The structures we create can be paired with a variety of canvas canopies, lighting arrangement, car charging options, and battery back-up systems.