Tag Archives: streetlights
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. [...]
HUGE: Los Angeles Converting All Streetlights to LEDs
In the largest street lighting retrofit ever undertaken by a city, Los Angeles is in the process of converting its 210,000 street lights to energy efficient LEDs. Although the idea of switching the kind of lighting used may seem boring, street lights are responsible for 40% of cities’ energy bills, according to Pike Research, … and therefore, energy consumption. [...]
Solar Bus Shelters Powering Street Lights in California
The City of Perris, Calif. is preparing to install six solar-powered bus shelters in different locations around the city. The grid-tied shelters will have 1.2-kilowatt solar arrays on their roofs, said city planner Clara Miramontes. They’ll also be connected to traffic lights at the location, offsetting their energy use. “The solar bus shelters will be [...]
The Mango Solar Street Lamp Concept
Mango is an eco friendly street light concept for India from a Hungarian designer, Adam Mikloski. Designed in the shape of a mango leaf, the LED powered street lamp concept can gather both rainwater and sunlight for recycling power. In India, monsoons bring huge downpours and summers are marked with bright sunlight. Therefore, this unique [...]
Solar Streetlights by Loopwing Korea
In an effort to reduce demand for grid electricity, Loopwing Koreahas demonstrated new streetlights and renewable energy generators at the Renewable Energy World 2010. The loopwing-type wind power generatorshave a unique loop-shaped wing structure which makes it possible toconvert wind speeds as low as 2m/s into electricity. The unique design also helps the product generate [...]
Solar Streetlights Come to Cambodia
Korea-based design studio, Nothing Design Group, has collaborated with Asiana Airlines and Korea International Cooperation Agency, to install solar-powered streetlamps in a world cultural heritage site in Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The solar-powered streetlamps have been installed to provide safetyto tourists visiting the heritage site, without having any impact on the delicate ecosystem. The completed [...]
Concept Solar Streetlights from Lighting Science Group
Lighting Science Group has created a new range of LED streetlights that run entirelyindependent of local power grids. The sustainable streetlights harvestsolar energy to power a series of energy saving lights, which are beingclaimed to be more efficient that regular HID streetlights. The new PROLIFIC Series Roadway Streetlights are being installed on a 14 mile [...]
Chicago Suburb Gets Hybrid Streetlights
Downers Grove, Illinois is lighting the way when itcomes to hybrid street lights. Using a combination of solar, wind and battery power, the PrentissCreek Subdivision in Downers Grove is the first residential subdivisionin the United States with hybrid street lights. In 2008, the Prentiss Creek Homeowner’s Association (HOA) requestedstreet lights for its unlit neighborhood. While [...]
Da Vinci Hybrid Wind and Solar Streetlights
A Michigan street is shining a bit brighter with the help of a brand new hybrid lighting system. Earlier this month, the Ramsond Corporation installed its first Da Vinci Hybrid Wind & Solar Lighting System in the West Bloomfield Township Hall parking lot. The first of its kind in the USA, the system uses a combination ofsolar [...]