An Australian startup is looking to disrupt the booming solar industry with its locally designed and manufactured removable panels.

The company, Solpod, has developed a new way of mounting solar panels on the roofs of commercial and industrial buildings that address some of the barriers businesses have faced in switching to solar photovoltaic power.

James Larratt is the chief executive and founder of Solpod.

The panels can be removed and relocated because they are assembled in a demountable frame and attached to the roof with adhesive foam, which means there is no need to drill holes in the roof to attach the panels and they are prefabricated in a factory, which reduces the amount of labour and disruption on site.

“Rather than individually assembling every panel, bolt, nut and cable on a customer’s roof over many weeks, Solpod assembles pods in a quality-controlled factory and minimises our time on site,” chief executive James Larratt said.