Photovoltaics on funeral structures
A cemetery is an enormous, flat, unobstructed surface that produces nothing. A self-supporting frame over the niches themselves turns it into a generating plant.
Nobody builds a warehouse just to put panels on it. In a cemetery the warehouse is already built.
Ground-mounted photovoltaics compete for land with everything else, and rooftop arrays depend on the building holding up and facing the right way. A cemetery solves both by accident: hectares of quadrangular structures, solid, at the same height, with no cast shadows and no other use on top of them. What was missing was the piece that lets you mount panels without drilling the niches or blocking access to them. The invention is that frame: self-supporting, with adjustable telescopic legs to absorb the slope of the ground and rows of panels whose tilt is set with hinges, so the same structure works at any latitude without redesigning it.
Self-supporting on purpose
It does not anchor to the funeral structure, it rests on it. That avoids touching an asset with its own legal regime and holders with rights over it, which is the real reason nobody had tried this before.
Telescopic legs and tilt
Cemeteries are rarely level. The adjustable legs absorb the slope and the hinges set the panel angle, so the same frame works in Málaga and in Oslo.
Zero extra land
That is the figure that convinces a council: the installation does not take up a single square metre that was not already taken, and it does not change the use of the grounds.
Generation unit over funeral structures
Frame, mounting and tilt adjustment