From commercial transportation fleets and marine operations to defense deployments, off-grid infrastructure, and even space, Merlin engineers solar and energy systems for the applications where performance isn’t optional. Every system is purpose-built around your environment, your constraints, and what reliability actually means in your operation.
Engineered for Every Application
And Every Environment
Some applications need more than a solar panel. They need a system that’s been engineered for how and where it actually operates, and built around real conditions, real constraints, and what reliability means in that specific environment.
When power has to survive constant vibration, saltwater exposure, extreme thermal cycling, remote deployment, or the harsh realities of a commercial fleet, the system has to be specifically engineered for where and how it operates.
That’s what every Merlin Energy Application is built around.
Transportation Fleets
Reduce idle time, protect battery health, and keep your fleet moving.
When a truck, trailer, or specialty vehicle loses power, the impact goes far beyond the battery. Merlin partners with fleet operators to build integrated solar and energy systems that reduce jump starts, cut auxiliary load pressure, and keep uptime where it needs to be, in the real conditions your fleet actually operates in.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Solar for truck and trailer rooftops, with no penetrations
- Battery maintenance and auxiliary load support
- Reefer, liftgate, telematics, and hotel load offset
- Idle time and fuel consumption reduction
- Scalable across mixed fleet types and vehicle classes
RV & Overland
Solar engineered for your build, ready for everything your customer puts it through.
Merlin works directly with RV OEM engineering teams, upfitters, and builders to design solar and energy systems that integrate cleanly at the production stage and reliably perform once they leave the factory.
We bring engineering insight early in the build process, before the challenges become field issues, and stay involved through testing, integration, and production.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Flexible, lightweight panels designed for curved and space-constrained RV rooftops
- Complete energy systems, from panels, batteries, inverters, and charging, designed to all work together from day one
- Factory integration and OEM production supply
- Systems engineered for boondocking, overlanding, and the extended off-grid use cases that your customers demand
- Engineering support from initial design through production ramp
Maritime
Mission-critical power for vessels operating far from shore.
At sea, there’s no room for a power system that almost works. Merlin designs marine solar systems that are built for constant motion, saltwater exposure, tight deck space, and the long stretches away from shore power that commercial marine operations demand.
Every system is engineered around your vessel and how it actually operates.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Flexible panels for curved hulls, decks, and vessel structures
- Complete marine energy systems, from solar, batteries, charging, and inverters
- Built for commercial fleets, cargo operations, and autonomous vessels
- Shade-tolerant performance under rigging and onboard structures
- Designed to extend battery life and reduce shore power dependency
Defense & Aerospace
Power engineered for field deployment, where failure is not an option.
In defense operations, your power system doesn’t get a second chance. Merlin builds military solar solutions around real mission requirements, that are rugged enough for field deployment, lightweight enough to carry, and reliable enough to stake your mission on.
From vehicle-mounted systems to man-carry configurations and deployable field power, every system is built for where it actually has to operate.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Rugged military solar panels that are impact resistant and built for field conditions
- Lightweight, man-carry and rapid-deploy configurations
- Low-signature power to reduce generator reliance in the field
- Vehicle-mounted solar for battery maintenance and mission readiness
- Non-reflective panels available in black and camouflage
Off-Grid & Remote Infrastructure
Reliable, self-sufficient power when the grid isn’t available or isn’t enough.
When you’re operating beyond the grid, your power system has to carry the full load. Out here, there is nothing to fall back on and there is no quick fix.
Merlin designs standalone off-grid energy systems for remote sites, mobile units, shipping containers, canopies, and emergency response, built to perform in the environments where reliable energy is most critical.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Standalone solar and storage for remote and semi-permanent installations
- Integrated systems for shipping containers, canopies, and operational structures
- Hybrid generator systems and limited-grid supplementation
- Emergency and disaster response power
- Built for harsh environments, fast deployment, and long-term durability
Roofing
Solar that works with your roof, not against it.
Traditional solar panels add weight, require penetrations, and don’t always suit the roof that they’re installed on.
Merlin designs flexible, lightweight solar solutions for roofing environments where those trade-offs aren’t acceptable, including flat, low-slope, curved, and membrane roofs across commercial, industrial, and residential applications.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Lightweight panels designed to minimize structural load
- Non-penetrating and adhesive peel-and-stick solar options
- Solutions for flat, low-slope, high-slope, curved, and membrane roofs
- Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and solar envelope design
- New builds and retrofit applications
Space
Engineered solar power for LEO, SSO, and beyond.
Space environments push every material and system to its limits. Merlin engineers solar panels for spacecraft and satellite applications where thermal cycling, launch vibration, and radiation exposure create failure modes that conventional panel architectures aren’t built to handle.
Every system starts with the real mission conditions, not the ideal ones.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- High-efficiency panels engineered for LEO and SSO environments
- Patented grid design manages thermo-mechanical stress under thermal cycling
- High power-to-weight designs for mass-constrained applications
- Flexible form factor options including cover glass and flexible configurations
- Built for long mission lifecycles and end-of-life performance stability
Limitless Applications
If it needs power and doesn’t fit the standard model, this is where we do our best work.
Some projects don’t fit neatly into a category, and that’s exactly where Merlin’s engineering-first approach is the most valuable.
From film production trailers and agricultural systems to solar-powered fueling infrastructure, cell towers, deployable disaster response power, and fully custom builds, if there’s a power challenge, we can engineer the solution.
What Merlin Builds Here:
- Silent mobile solar for film and TV production trailers
- Solar-powered agricultural equipment and off-grid irrigation systems
- Deployable emergency and disaster response power systems
- Solar-powered fueling stations and EV charging canopies
- Off-grid lighting for roads, parks, and public infrastructure
- Custom-engineered solutions for any application that needs something different
The Merlin Process
Engineering-led from the first conversation
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We Start With Your Application
Before anything else, we want to understand your environment. Where does the system need to operate? What conditions does it have to survive? What does reliable power actually mean for your specific operation? Every engagement starts with those questions, because the answers change everything about how the system gets built.
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We Engineer The Right Solution
Merlin doesn’t arrive with a pre-set solution. We work forward from your application, selecting the right components, designing the right architecture, and building something that is configured for your specific environment, even if it’s something we’ve never built before.
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We Stay Involved After the Design Is Done
Design is just the beginning. Our team stays alongside yours through integration, testing, and real-world deployment to make sure everything performs the way that it should, in the conditions that it was built for.
Every great system starts with one conversation.
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Every Great Project Starts With a Problem
Not sure which application fits? You’re not the first. Some of the most interesting projects we’ve worked on didn’t have a clear category when the conversation started. Bring us the problem and we’ll bring the engineering.
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll take it from there.