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150K Solar Street Lights Planned in Mecca
The scale of this solar street lighting project in the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca is truly breathtaking. However, what is even more breathtaking is the conclusions can one draw about the value proposition of solar in a place where oil generated electricity comes in at a mind numbingly low 0.006 per kilowatt hour. [...]
Urban Oasis: Street Signs That Charge Our Gadgets
All of us are very fond of spending some time outdoors, whether it is a leisurely walk, in the public parks or just relaxing on the park benches and having a nice chat with our friends and relatives, this gives a break from the routine work. But soon on realizing that the mobile is running [...]
Philips ‘Floating’ LED Street Lights
Open Squares are common meeting places, where people like to hang around and chit chat for a while out in the open to breathe free. But, night time often makes them clutter under light posts restricting their mobility. To deal with this challenge, city planners and architects approached the Dutch Electronics giant, Phillips to design [...]
The Sun-catcher Solar light sculpture
Sun-catcher sculpture is an innovative way to illuminate a street using solar energy. Artist Dee Dee Morrison and her Morrison Studio have designed and installed this solar powered sun-catcher sculpture at Clearwater in Florida, U.S.A. Built with integrated solar panels at the top, the sculpture can produce light for the street when it is dark. [...]
In Focus: Solar Powered Street Level Induction Lighting
Across the nation there are a growing number of cities which are and have been falling short of their budgets and finding themselves having to make many financial cuts. Energy efficiency or renewable energy projects are quickly finding their way to the front of the line when it comes to the upgrades most cities are [...]
Main Street Power, Morgan Stanley Launch Solar Pilot Program
Main Street Power Co. Inc., a national solar developer, has launched afree energy pilot program subsidized through Solar Access California(SACA), a partnership between Main Street Power and Morgan Stanley. Working with nonprofit agencies, the partnership’s program is designed todeliver free solar power to income-qualified residents of multi-unitapartments across California. Under a No-Cost Power PurchaseStructure, SACA [...]
Sanyo, Panasonic Introduce Everleds Lithium-ion Solar Street Light
Sanyo and Panasonic recently announced the launch of the Everleds Lithium-ion Solar StreetLight that is designed to reduce impact on the environment. Thehigh-tech street light is made by combining solar cells and lithium-ionbatteries. The high efficiency solar cells harness solar energy andstore it in the lithium-ion batteries attached to the back of the panel. Unlike [...]
Why Wall Street Loves Energy Efficiency
San Francisco, Calif.–At the Renewable Energy Finance Forum-West,energy bankers said that clean technology segment leaders should be able to IPO successfully and that energy efficiency is an attractivesector. But they also predicted that oil companies will scale backtheir investments in wind energy and that the availability of capitalwill remain limited in the short term. [...]
Main Street Power Signs 4.5 MW Solar Contract
Main Street Power Co. Inc., a national solar developer based in Boulder, Colo., has been awarded acontract by the San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) Board tobuild, own and operate 4.5 MW of distributed solar photovoltaic systemson approximately 36 sites across the district. Main Street Powerwas awarded these projects in response to a competitive request [...]