Hospital load and canopy generation are an unusually good match. A hospital runs a high, flat base load through daylight hours every day of the year, and its car parks are full for the same hours. Perth's yield means each kilowatt installed here returns more than the same kilowatt anywhere else in the Ramsay network.
What the canopy does for the site
Highest yield in the network
At roughly 1,550 kWh per kWp a year, a canopy in Perth generates around 24% more than the same canopy in Melbourne. Joondalup is the strongest WA candidate on lot size alone.
Shade is a patient experience issue
Covered parking matters to patients, visitors and staff walking to a ward in February. It is one of the few sustainability investments a visitor actually experiences.
The roof is not the constraint
A canopy is a new structure sized to the lot, so roof age, plant and structural capacity stop limiting how much generation the campus can carry.
Scope 2 that is easy to report
Generation is metered on site and behind the meter, so the reduction is measurable and lands in the same reporting line every year.
Why this campus
Ramsay reports group emissions and energy performance across its Australian hospitals. Roof space on a hospital is contested, heavily serviced and often old, which is why so much of the campus generation opportunity is on the ground.
The canopy drawn below delivers 1.10 MWp and about 1.71 GWh a year on site for $2.07M of base scope. Joondalup has further at-grade parking beyond the lot drawn here, so this is a first stage rather than the whole opportunity.
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: 1.10 MWp, about 1.71 GWh a year generated on site, for $2.07M of base scope.
Joondalup Health CampusJoondalup, WA
Prelim PP-RHC-001
1.10 MWpSystem size
~1.71 GWh/yrGenerated on site
4,569 m²Canopy coverage
1,444Solar modules
$2.07MBase scope, ex-GST ($1.88/W)
51Structural columns
Drawn on one of the campus at-grade lots. 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 live campuses
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. The AstraZeneca canopy went up on an active pharmaceutical campus and the client confirmed it was three times faster than in-situ construction, with 75% fewer high-risk on-site labour hours. That is the closest comparison we have to building around a working hospital.
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 which lot goes first, validate the layout on the actual title boundary, and firm the tariff and self-consumption assumptions with Joondalup's own consumption data. Parking access and patient flow come into that conversation early.