Originally published on Gas2. A section of Route 66 in Missouri will soon be covered in solar panels from Idaho startup, Solar Roadways. “It gets Missouri and MDOT prepared for 21st century innovations,” says Tom Blair, who heads the Road to Tomorrow initiative. “We expect them to be in place, I’m … [continued]
Solar roads have been a dream of countless cleantech lovers for awhile now. And there’s actually a company with the name Solar Roadways. We’ve written about the potential of solar roads and solar bike lanes a number of times over the years, but there’s news out now that Solar Roadways has received a $750,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration to build a parking lot in Idaho paved with solar panels, the most practical application of the idea I’ve heard of in the U.S.
Local opposition to a huge solar and battery storage installation west of Columbus, Ohio, is part of a pattern promoted by Big Oil.
Hungarian Company Introduces Improved Solar Modules For Solar Pavement
There’s only so much room for solar panels. In the suburbs, almost every dwelling has its own roof, and out past the suburbs, there’s room for large solar farms. But in many cities, there’s no more room for panels. One company came up with a creative solution: build them into … [continued]
Solar power will offset electricity for a steel mill that makes well casings for oil and gas drilling operations.
A trio of technology leaders in Europe — the Austrian Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer ISE in Germany, and Forster Industrietechnik in Switzerland — is working to develop a solar canopy system for highways in order to tap into the vast, under-utilized road network for clean electricity generation.
Fraunhofer ISE says solar panels could provide up to 500 GW of electricity in coming years. It calls for an integrated approach to expand solar in new and nontraditional locations.
The role of the once lonely street light has been heavily rewritten so that it now serves as a major information gateway, runs on solar power, and is sensing and reporting far more than you might imagine. Indeed, the global market for the smart street light is projected at $18 billion per year by 2024. While that number may sound hard to believe, the next time you drive under a carport or walk across an intersection, just look up.
Bike paths: The Netherlands is covered with them, connecting more or less every destination a person might wish to go to and greatly increasing the convenience of cycling as a sustainable mode of transport. In the densely populated country, where space is scarce, a consortium of companies and research labs called Solaroad is endeavoring to make those cycle lanes reduce carbon emissions in yet another way: by having them to generate solar electricity.
