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Not a bad idea but not sure how they’d handle snowfall.
I could be wrong on this but i thought i remembered some engineer youtuber saying that sun panels naturally emit enough heat to prevent snow from forming? (Fact check me on that)
And they’re hydrophobic. I hear snow is rarely an issue, but would be interested to hear from someone with actual experience.
There’s a train station parking lot where I live which has solar canopies over the car spots.
In the winter, snow and ice accumulates and does fall off. A few years ago a saw a big section of ice/slush slough off and almost hit a kid waiting for their parent to pick them up.
I’m not sure how bad it really is overall, but the photo in this post doesn’t look much like an area which gets snowfall.
Snow will accumulate on solar panels (source - have rooftop solar on Colorado). Panels are glass so snow will slide off depending on angle, and since panels are dark they tend to melt snow quicker once they get started melting, typically causing the snow to slide off dramatically.
Sunlight tends to be negligible during snowfall season, anyway.