INDEX Awards: Solar Powered Streetlights

Imagine how many streetlights there are in your city. Now imagine how many there are in your province or state. Now the entire country. Now all of North America. Now the entire world.

That’s a lot of streetlights, and a lot of power. What if all those streetlights could be powered by renewable electricity? Well this design features a solar-powered streetlight. It charges it’s batter during the day, and uses that power at night. It doesn’t specify the type of bulb used, but a super-bright white LED would be great on energy.

These solar-powered streetlights could also produce more than they would use to light the streets, and could theoretically be hooked back into the grid. This would provide a mass solar farm and generating massive amounts of electricity. Who knows, maybe you city will be powered by it’s streetlights in the near future!

By implementation of this system of products which are all street furniture that work and depend on energy collected by themselves, our urban areas could literary become solar energy farms. In this system it is most likely that energy collected in this way will be more than enough for need of street lamps, phone booths, bus stops and all of the leftover energy can be used for other purposes. With its 7.3 square meters of the main panel with solar cells and with MoSESS (Movement sensors energy saving system), big solar street lamp is able to provide illumination for city streets throughout all night. Bus stops provide ideal space for application of solar cells. They do not use much energy and in this way they can help other users from the SOLAR FAMILY that use more electricity. Even more, the electricity collected by the Solar bus stops can be used by any other user as they are all connected to electric company that serve as collecting energy point.

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