German mounting system specialist Clickcon has launched a vertical PV aluminum-framed, ground-mounted system for use as a privacy screen in residential and commercial applications.
The Clickwall system was presented at the Solar&Storage Live Zurich 2025. While the unit on display featured hail-resistant bifacial 435 W full black modules supplied by Lithuania-based Solitek, it is compatible with “almost all commercially available framed PV modules,” a Clickcon spokesperson told pv magazine.
“Bifacial double-glazed photovoltaic modules are particularly recommended, as they generate power on both the front and back,” the spokesperson added.
Clickwall is being marketed as an alternative to rooftop systems, or as an addition to existing installations, with its vertical orientation offering benefits such as being easier to clean and being less likely to accumulate snow.
The Clickwall aluminum posts are supplied with standard base plates for mounting on existing foundations or for setting in concrete. Other mounting setups with L-blocks or angle base plates are available as optional accessories, according to the company.
The PV modules can be mounted individually and positioned in the framework either sideways or upright. Two modules stacked horizontally are also possible. In addition, the design accommodates panel disassembly without removing the fence posts.
Optional BRC Solar optimizers, cabling and circuitry can also be ordered. The products are available from Germany-based Krannich Solar, as well as other partners.
Clickcon, founded in 2010, develops PV mounting systems for car parking areas and other urban spaces, such as bike paths. Earlier this year, it released an online mounting system calculator for solar carports and PV canopies.
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Why would you not? I mean, defs have a grabbier base with low plants or other seepage below, but for the trouble, take the energy.
Innovation in the solar field is always unique I’ll gitlve it that. This though as a solar professional I’m of the opinion this is an awful idea.
1) Panels at high angles to the sun generate very little electricity. The production out of these same modules on a roof or proper pitch angle would result in 2-4x the power output for the same cost.
2) shading would be a much la4ger concern with the panel being anlt ground level much more shading will occur. When a panel is partly shaded it must shut down to prevent damage to the panel and so produces no or very limited power. Possibly worse still it’s now coming to light that repeated shading leads to early failure and rapid degradation of the panel due to tiny internal shorting in the cells.
3) grass growing up at the base is also going to cause shading accross the bottom few inches of the panel again shutting it off. Also f you use a weed Wacker good chances of throwing gravel peices into the panels at high speed. Most of them can take that without shattering but occasionally bad luck means a broken or chipped module.
I have a fence to keep people from stealing my panels…