Every port on earth
has this asset.
None of them are using it.
Every big port in the world has a tall metal fence around it. The fence is already built. It is already paid for. Nobody is making money from it. You cannot put solar panels on the ground at a port. Every bit of ground is used to stack shipping containers or drive trucks. You cannot put many panels on the roofs either. The buildings are not strong enough to hold them. And normal flat solar panels make power at the wrong time of day. So no port has ever put solar panels on the fence. Anywhere.
Every bit of ground at a port is used to stack containers, run crane rails, or drive trucks. A port manager will never give up space for solar panels.
Port buildings were not built to carry extra weight on top. Making them strong enough costs more than the power is worth.
Flat panels make the most power at lunchtime when nobody needs it. They stop at 6pm when everybody comes home and turns everything on. This is called the duck curve. It is a problem where solar makes too much power at lunchtime and not enough at dinnertime.
Picture a busy street. At noon, nobody is home. At 6pm, everybody comes home. They turn on the lights, the stove, the AC. They charge the car. Normal flat solar panels make tons of power at noon when nobody needs it. Then they stop right when everybody needs power most. Power plants have to ramp up fast — from low to full blast in under two hours. This is the duck curve.
Our panels stand up like a wall instead of lying flat. They catch sunlight on both sides. One side faces east and one side faces west. The east side makes power at 8am when people wake up. The west side makes power at 3pm when factories run hardest and AC kicks in. We make power when the grid needs it most. That is when power costs the most too.
Stand the panels up
like a wall on the fence.
- ▸The fence is already there — nothing new to build
- ▸No port ground is used up
- ▸East side makes power in the morning
- ▸West side makes power in the afternoon
- ▸A 1-meter gap at the bottom keeps full port security
- ▸Harder to climb than a normal open fence
- ▸Top-quality 500W panels with international safety approval
- ▸25-year power warranty
- ▸Vertical solar has been used in Europe for years on farms and along roads. Nobody has tried it on a port fence yet. We are the first to do this.
- ▸Over 800 secure ports in the world. Zero have these panels today.
Normal parts. New way to put them up.
- ▸Panels bolt onto the fence posts that are already there — no new concrete
- ▸Posts just get a little thicker for wind — normal steel work
- ▸Cables run along the fence — no digging
- ▸Small power boxes every 200 to 500 meters — easy to grow
- ▸Any solar crew can do it — no special training
- ▸Built in pieces — one kilometer at a time, each turned on by itself
- ▸Checking on it is simple — clean the panels, check the boxes, check the posts
US Ports First. Then the World.
- ▸Port of Long Beach — must hit zero emissions by 2035
- ▸Port of Los Angeles — 40% of US shipping containers come through here
- ▸Port of Hueneme — smaller port, perfect size for a first try
- ▸Port of San Diego — already working on clean energy
- ▸San Diego base — we know people across the area
- ▸California may help pay for solar
- ▸Port Canaveral, FL — small and close to home for the Florida company
- ▸Port of Fernandina, FL — small, perfect size for a first try
- ▸Port of Baltimore — close to federal energy programs
- ▸Port of Savannah — biggest container port on the East Coast
- ▸US clean-air rules push these ports just like the West Coast
- ▸Port of Durrës, Albania — we have a warm contact
- ▸Porto Romano — brand new 400-hectare port, fence work being bid now
- ▸Italy (Genoa, Trieste), Croatia (Rijeka), Greece
- ▸European laws force ports to use cleaner energy
- ▸A finished US project makes every overseas pitch stronger
Three Ways to Make Money. Nothing Hidden.
We sign the deal with the port. We hire a normal solar company to do the work. We keep the difference. We do not need much money to start.
This table shows how much money we make on each port we build. The "Low" and "High" columns are the worst and best case.
Every port we finish also pays us every year to check on it and keep it working. Looking after panels on a port fence is harder than looking after panels on the ground. You need special badges to get inside ports that follow international security rules. The power boxes are spread out along the fence. The panels are up high so you cannot reach them from a truck. All of that costs more. So we charge more. We hire normal workers at cost. We keep the management fee every year, on every port, forever.
This table shows how much money we make each year on every port we look after. The "Low" and "High" columns are the worst and best case.
After we've built and maintained several ports, we use our track record to raise infrastructure capital from institutional investors. We use that capital to buy the panels and own them outright. The port signs a 20-year agreement to buy the power from us at a fixed rate — lower than what they currently pay their utility.
This table shows the economics of owning the panels at a single port. The numbers are larger because we earn revenue every year for two decades.
The port could build its own solar — but it would have to put up the capital, take on the construction risk, and carry the maintenance burden for 25 years. Under our PPA, the port spends zero capital, transfers all build and performance risk to us, and locks in a power price below its current industrial utility rate for 20 years. It's a cleaner balance sheet and a lower cost of power. That's why ports sign.
Real Risks. Honest Answers. Here Is How We Handle Each One.
We will be the first company to do this. Port managers like things that have been proven. The first sales meeting is harder when we cannot point to a finished example.
We are not making cold calls. Southern California ports are being forced by law to clean up. We have a local San Diego presence, so we are not strangers walking in. A small 1-kilometer test on one friendly port gives us the finished example. After that, every other meeting gets easier.
We think the posts only need to be 10 to 15% thicker for wind. That is a good estimate. But every fence is a little different. Post spacing and local wind can change the answer.
Step 1 at every port is a fence walk-around to check the posts. A licensed engineer signs off before we order any panels. Every solar project does this. It is a normal cost, not a deal-breaker.
Many kilometers of fence means many small connection points, not one. The wiring and small power boxes need careful design. Getting permission from the city or state takes time.
The first 1-kilometer test is small enough for a single plug-in. After that, we build it in sections, and turn each section on by itself. In California, the process to plug into the state grid is well known. A local solar partner handles it all the time.
Nobody else is doing this today. Once people see it, bigger companies with more money could try to catch up. Every month we wait is a month they could move.
Our advantage is being first. Once we install one port and collect a year of real data, no competitor can catch up to that data — they would have to wait a full year themselves. Plus any rival still needs to find a port willing to be their first customer. We get there first by acting first.
The first port makes $115K to $164K. That is real money but not enough to quit a day job on day one. The yearly check-in fees are the steady paycheck. Those take 2 to 3 years to add up.
We keep our day jobs until Year 3. By then, Ways 1 and 2 together earn $460K to $656K per year. Starter money and the partner's hands-on work carry us until then. That is normal for an infrastructure business built without big investor money.