06/15/2026
JPMorgan Chase turned one of its giant parking lots in Columbus, Ohio, into a massive solar power plant, and it protects vehicles.
At the company's McCoy Center campus, roughly 40,000 solar panels were installed on elevated canopies above parking areas, creating shade for vehicles while generating electricity. Combined with thousands of panels already installed on the building's roof, the system now supplies about 75% of the facility's electricity needs.
This is actually quite the feat. The McCoy Center is JPMorgan Chase's largest building in the world, covering about 2 million square feet and housing around 10,000 to 12,000 employees. The building is often described as the second-largest single-user office building in the United States after the Pentagon.
The solar installation generates about 14.8 megawatts of power, enough electricity for more than 1,000 average homes. At the time it was completed, JPMorgan said it was the second-largest commercial office solar installation in the world, behind only Apple's headquarters in California.
What's interesting is that the company didn't need to clear forests or farmland for the project. Instead, it used space that was already paved over. The solar canopies also provide shade, reduce heat buildup in parked cars, and make use of an enormous parking lot that contains roughly 9,000 spaces.
This could be used in many more places and provide benefits, that is, until those suppressing advanced energy technologies allow them to come to market. To most, this idea is a unicorn, but our team has vetted and seen these technologies first hand.
