Solar

Atkore offers the most comprehensive portfolio of products, systems, solutions, and services to optimize the performance, reliability, and return on investment for any solar installation: utility-grade power plants, commercial and industrial applications, residential rooftops, and carports. With a proven track record in solar since the 1990s, we have expertise with all manner of solar systems, grid connections, and integration with smart grids and microgrids. We provide solutions for outside-the-panel components racking mechanical tubing, mounting systems, and high-performance flexible conduit.

We can also design our products around your unique solar requirements: we offer a range of special fabrication services to reduce job site assembly time. 

Solar Product Portfolio

Racking, Mounting & Framing

• Metal Framing Channel, Fittings & Accessories

  Metal framing channel fittings and accessories provide the most flexible support system for your solar projects.

• Rooftop Supports

  Reinforce rooftops with our rooftop bases and low-profile supports.

• Galvanized Mechanical & Structural Steel Tubing

  Our customizable tubing supports mounting and rotation of photovoltaic panels.

• Fabrication Services

  We do swaging, drilling, bending, cutting, laser, welding, hole-punching, and more: we can work closely with you to ensure our quality parts are fabricated to your specifications.

• Solar End Clamp

  Use Mid-clamp and End-clamp with strut-based racking system. Our patented design features stainless steel teeth that pierce into anodized aluminum, providing a gas tight connection which prevents oxidation. Meets uplift loads of 350 lbs.

Electrical Cable & Wire Management

• Steel Conduit & Fittings

  Our conduit product portfolio is comprehensive and features steel, aluminum, and PVC substrates. We have pioneered conduit technology.

• Corrugated Flexible Conduit

  Our commercial and industrial flexible liquid tight conduits come in both metallic and non-metallic options. Metallic flexible liquid tight conduit is constructed of hot dipped zinc galvanized low carbon steel core.

• Aluminum Conduit & Fittings

  Aluminum conduit, elbows, and couplings combine light weight and corrosion resistance to provide a full line of easy-to-install, low-maintenance conduit raceway whenever specifications call for aluminum.

• HDPE Conduit

  HDPE conduit is flexible, easily installed, and requires minimal labor. It is chemically resistant, has a long service life, and is not susceptible to rust, rot, or electrolysis.

• PVC/Fiberglass Conduit & Fittings

  We have a complete line of conduit, fittings, access fittings, elbows, boxes, and accessories.

• Non-Metallic Liquid tight

  Our products are designed for use in wet, dry, or oily locations as a flame resistant, non-metallic raceway for power, control, and communications cables.

• Flexible Metal Conduit & Fittings

  We have pre-wired armored and metal-clad cables, flexible wiring systems, flexible metal, non-metallic, flexible metallic liquid tight conduits, and fittings.

• Cable Tray, Wire Basket & Steel Ladder

  Our cable tray systems feature a line of metal and fiberglass cable tray systems including center-hung cable trays and wire basket trays for cable management. They provide a clear direction and path for photovoltaic and medium voltage cables.

Site Perimeter Security & Safety

• Barbless Tape

  We have exterior perimeter security tape for use as a deterrence against intrusion while eliminating any danger associated with sharp razor wire.

• Barbed Tape

  Use it for perimeter fencing security, and it is compatible with razor panels and other concertina coils.

• Traffic Products

  We have a broad range of signposts, breakaway systems, and accessories designed for quick and easy installation.

• Galvanized Fence Posts

  Customizable galvanized steel tubing is used for perimeter fence post.

• Security Bollards 

  We have crash-rated, fixed, removable, and retractable bollards for perimeter security.

Product Applications 

• Panel/Array

  A solar panel array is a string of solar panels connected in series. The solar panels are usually connected with solar cable and MC4 connectors. The maximum number of solar panels per string depends on the actual input voltage of the solar inverter.

• Mounting Structure

  Photovoltaic mounting systems (also called solar module racking) are used to fix solar panels on surfaces like roofs, building facades, or the ground. These mounting systems generally enable retrofitting of solar panels on roofs or as part of the structure of the building (called BIPV).

• Racking Systems

  Solar racking systems are used to safely fix solar panels to various surfaces such as roofs, building facades, or the ground. The system is designed to easily be retrofitted to existing rooftops and structures.

• Inverter

  The inverter converts the direct current (DC) electricity generated by the solar panel to alternating current (AC) electricity, in order to be used by the electrical grid.

• Combiner Box

  The role of the combiner box is to combine the strings from the solar panels into one box. Each string is attached to a fuse terminal; the output of the fuse terminals is combined into a single cable that connects to the inverter box.

• Transformer

  Solar panel transformers convert the DC voltage coming out of the photovoltaic systems and step it up to the rated output. This can also be called as a solar inverter transformer because it inverts DC to AC.

• Substation

  Substations are fenced facility owned and operated by utilities. They convert high voltages to low voltages, or vice versa. Substations are necessary because of differences in voltages.

• Battery Energy Storage

  Battery energy storages reserve energy for later consumption and is charged by a connected solar system. The stored electricity is consumed after sundown, during energy demand peaks, or during a power outage.

• Rooftop

  Rooftop solar power systems, or rooftop PV systems, are photovoltaic systems that have electricity-generating solar panels mount on the rooftop of a residential buildings, commercial buildings, and other structures.

• Carports/Canopy

  Solar canopies are custom-built outdoor structures designed to hold an overhead solar array. They allow for distributed solar energy generation, that is, the production of solar electricity onsite.