Skyhook Launches the D6 Solar Station, Bringing Off-Grid and Grid-Optimizing Solar Power to EV Charging, Micromobility and More
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As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, one of the industry’s biggest challenges remains access to charging infrastructure. Building traditional charging stations often requires lengthy permitting, utility upgrades, and significant construction costs. Colorado-based Skyhook Solar is taking a different approach by delivering transportable, solar-powered charging stations that can be deployed in hours instead of months.
In partnership with Rivian, Skyhook launched its innovative new D6 Solar Station last week at Aspen Ideas Fest, featuring Skyhook’s OCPP-compatible, user-friendly charging app with fleet and battery management software. Held annually at the Aspen Institute, Ideas Fest is one of the world’s premier gatherings for leaders in business, technology, science, education, public policy, philanthropy, healthcare, and the arts. The summer event brings together influential thinkers to discuss solutions to many of society’s most pressing challenges, including climate change, artificial intelligence, energy, economic development, public health, education, and global affairs.
Organized by the Aspen Institute in partnership with The Atlantic, the festival features keynote speeches, panel discussions, interviews, workshops, and networking events with government officials, CEOs, entrepreneurs, scientists, journalists, artists, and nonprofit leaders.
Skyhook Solar’s D6 Level X™ Solar Station is a self-contained, zero-emissions charging solution designed to provide clean energy for electric vehicles, micromobility fleets, emergency power, and communications infrastructure without requiring a traditional grid connection, but supplementing the grid where optimal.
The transportable system combines a 28 kWh battery with more than 3200 watts of bifacial solar panels, allowing it to generate and store renewable energy on-site. Solar input and battery capacity can be doubled by deployment of a tandem D12 Solar Station, featuring two D6 solar canopies side-by-side or daisy-chained back-to-back. Skyhook’s Level X technology works where the grid cannot go or where a grid connection would be cost-prohibitive. Skyhook Solar has worked with all levels of EV charging, as well as off-grid In the Navajo Nation, and in a variety of commercial and municipal energy applications.
The Level X Solar Station features an integrated microcomputer with LTE or satellite connectivity, enabling remote monitoring and communications. Additional features include LED under-canopy lighting and four optional 30-inch by 36-inch display panels, and a larger base panel, that can be used for advertising, public messaging, or sponsorship purposes.
The Skyhook’s solar canopy spans approximately 132 square feet while maintaining a compact 72-inch by 42-inch footprint with 8 feet of overhead clearance. The autonomous unit weighs approximately 3,500 pounds, making it transportable while remaining robust enough for permanent or semi-permanent installations.
According to Skyhook, the Level X D6 Solar Station is currently priced at $54,500. The system is designed for municipalities, multi-family parking lots, events, parks, campuses, remote locations, but also for private homes and workplaces, where resilient, clean, rapidly deployable charging infrastructure is needed.
Founded in 2019, Skyhook Solar builds a variety of industrial-grade generators that combine photovoltaic panels, battery energy storage, and intelligent energy management into transportable units, deployable individually, in tandem, or in networks. The systems provide AC and DC power for EV charging, electric bike and scooter charging, broadband communications, lighting, digital advertising and emergency power, without dependence on a traditional grid connection.
One of the company’s biggest advantages is rapid deployment. Unlike conventional charging installations that may require engineering studies, trenching, utility interconnection, and permitting, Skyhook Solar Stations arrive fully assembled and can be installed in about an hour. This makes them attractive for municipalities, special events, multifamily housing, workplaces and locations where permanent electrical infrastructure is unavailable or too expensive.
Skyhook’s Level X™ charging platform combines solar generation with integrated battery storage to deliver flexible EV charging while reducing dependence on the electric grid. The company has also developed remote monitoring, fleet management and charge control software that tracks energy production, electricity consumption, system performance, and estimated greenhouse gas reductions in real time.
Beyond innovative EV charging, Skyhook has become a leader providing power to shared micromobility. Skyhook Solar Stations support electric bike and scooter fleets using renewable energy, helping operators expand service without the sunk cost of new grid infrastructure. Deployments include cities across the United States, Canada, and pilots in Europe.
As utilities struggle to keep pace with growing electricity demand, modular distributed energy solutions are becoming increasingly critical. By combining solar power, battery storage, and transportable infrastructure, Skyhook Solar is helping make micromobility and EV charging faster to deploy, to be more resilient and sustainable, while reducing costs for fleet operators and communities. Skyhook is a long-time brand alliance partner of the climate advocacy organization Protect Our Winters. Skyhook’s website reflects its commitment to supporting electrification on all fronts in order to change the future.
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