According to Inhabitat, roughly 160 billion square feet of land have been paved and used just as parking lots for cars. Envision plans to use some of this space to accommodate solar panels structures called solar tree car shelters. Is this wasting even more space? Not quite. The solar tree shelters … [continued]
Just the other day, Cleantechnica reported that GE foresees the cost of solar power falling below that of fossil fuels and nuclear energy within the next five years, and the tech giant has wasted no time positioning itself to ride that transition. Its latest move is a foray into solar power installations at parking lots, and true to form the company pulled out all the stops for this one.
The U.S. Navy’s Seal Beach facility in California is now home to a new $1.9 million solar parking lot, thanks to funding from the federal Recovery Act.
Alpha Energy, a Bellingham, Washington-based photovoltaic power systems provider, has installed the largest parking structure solar array in the US; a 1 MW array on the parking lot of an auto auction facility in New Jersey. The array will supply the New Jersey grid with more than a million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.
