These are not desktop guesses. Each canopy below was drawn to scale on the centre's actual car park and priced through our engine. Figures are preliminary, ex-GST, subject to site assessment. Across just these three: 3.3 MWp, about 4.8 GWh a year generated on site, for roughly $6.8M of base scope.
A solar canopy is hard, disclosable infrastructure. It strengthens each centre's NABERS and sustainability position and gives Region a real Scope 2 lever for AASB S2 climate reporting, now mandatory for large entities.
Generation on site offsets common-area load (mall lighting, HVAC, car park) and opens an on-sold-power or embedded-network revenue opportunity to the anchor tenants, with EV-charging revenue as demand grows.
Covered parking is a visible shopper amenity: protection from sun, heat and hail, a better arrival, and support for dwell time, foot traffic and tenant retention. Across regional QLD and NSW, that shade matters.
The same structure also carries LED lighting, security and CCTV, and is battery-ready for demand management. None of that is in the prices above, and none of it needs a separate build; the canopy is engineered to take it.
Canyon Solar factory-builds solar canopies that turn large car parks into on-site power generation and shade. We have delivered them for Woolworths, across six sites, and for IGA, AstraZeneca and CSIRO. The canopy below sits over an IGA supermarket car park, the same kind of anchor that trades across Region's portfolio.
For the main lots, 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 makes the car park look like a designed part of the centre, not an afterthought.
Beyond the three above, we desktop-sized the wider shortlist from each centre's GLA. Together the 15 centres represent roughly 10.8 MWp and $24-29M of indicative solar canopy, a programme that can be staged centre by centre.
| Centre | Location | Anchors | System | Indicative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavington Square Drawn & priced | Lavington (Albury), NSW | Woolworths; Big W | 465 kWp | $1.11M |
| Central Highlands Marketplace Drawn & priced | Emerald, QLD | Woolworths; Big W | 1.52 MWp | $3.00M |
| Raymond Terrace Marketplace Drawn & priced | Raymond Terrace, NSW | Woolworths; Big W | 1.33 MWp | $2.67M |
| Marketplace Warner Desktop | Warner (Brisbane), QLD | Woolworths; ALDI | ~812 kWp | $1.6-2.0M |
| Brassall SC Desktop | Brassall (Ipswich), QLD | Woolworths; ALDI | ~719 kWp | $1.7-2.1M |
| Katoomba Marketplace Desktop | Katoomba, NSW | Woolworths; Big W | ~676 kWp | $1.6-1.9M |
| Mount Isa Village Desktop | Mount Isa, QLD | Coles; Kmart | ~670 kWp | $1.6-1.9M |
| Marian Town Centre Desktop | Marian (Mackay), QLD | Woolworths | ~657 kWp | $1.5-1.9M |
| Muswellbrook Fair Desktop | Muswellbrook, NSW | Coles; Harvey Norman | ~614 kWp | $1.4-1.8M |
| Belmont Central SC Desktop | Belmont (Lake Macquarie), NSW | Woolworths | ~558 kWp | $1.3-1.6M |
| Whitsunday SC Desktop | Cannonvale, QLD | Coles | ~539 kWp | $1.3-1.5M |
| Worongary Town Centre Desktop | Worongary (Gold Coast), QLD | Coles | ~496 kWp | $1.2-1.4M |
| Griffin Plaza Desktop | Griffith, NSW | Coles | ~496 kWp | $1.2-1.4M |
| Drayton Central SC Desktop | Drayton (Toowoomba), QLD | Woolworths | ~474 kWp | $1.1-1.4M |
| Greenbank SC Desktop | Greenbank, QLD | Woolworths | ~397 kWp | $0.9-1.1M |
Region holds the canopies and all the generation, on a 30-year design life, staged centre by centre across the portfolio.
$0 upfront. A service agreement arranged through an independent finance partner; Region keeps the generation and pays from the savings and revenue.
A short working session to confirm the priority centres, validate the layouts on the actual title boundaries, and firm the tariff, common-area load and revenue assumptions with Region's real figures. We can draw and price any other centre in the portfolio live, in minutes.