Tessolar

Tessolar makes solar mounting hardware out of aerospace-grade composite that arrives factory-assembled. Two and a half mounts per panel, slid onto the module frame and snapped together with a power screwdriver, with no rails and nothing assembled on the roof.

Current rooftop hardware can run to fifty individual parts per panel, most of it put together by hand on a roof, with multiple tools and multiple operations. Lose one part and someone drives back to the shop. Installers, asked what they need, say faster installation before anything else, and the reason is that labor and overhead are now most of what a rooftop system costs. Using composite rather than aluminum or steel is what makes a fully assembled mount economical to produce, which is the part the incumbent manufacturing processes can't follow.