The rooftop array at 45737 Luckakuck Way is live, and the sales floor below it now runs on Fraser Valley sunshine for a good part of the day.
Why a retail roof is a good place for it
A store roof is flat, unshaded and enormous, and the building draws its heaviest load in daylight: lighting, tills, heating and cooling, all at their peak exactly when the panels are producing. Solar on a house has to fight the mismatch between midday generation and evening use. A shop does not. Generation and demand line up on the same clock.
It pairs with the chargers
Two ChargePoint stations sit in the lot, a few steps from the front door. Daytime generation and daytime charging are the same hours, which is the neatest part of the whole project: the car in the lot and the lights over the boot wall are drawing from the same roof.
ChargePoint runs on one app across North America. It will show you live availability and the current rate before you drive over.
What it does not change
Nothing about how we fit boots or stitch logos. The 24 Blundstone styles are still on the wall to try on, the commercial desk still runs Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 5:00, and quotes still come back within 48 hours. The array is infrastructure, not a marketing programme, and it will be quietly working whether or not anybody notices it.
Come and see it
You cannot see the roof from the parking lot, but you can see the chargers. We are beside Cottonwood Mall, off the Vedder Road exit, open seven days a week. Call (604) 858-4199.
