A Road with Purpose for future Sustainability- by Simran Vedvyasby Simran Vedvyas | 18-05-2015 05:36 |
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 SolaRoad is an innovative step of first Solar RoadAlready Generating More Power than ExpectedA new solar bike path in Krommenie, a village northwest of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which functions as a massive solar array, is already generating more power than expected. And guess what the SolaRoad is helping to generate—the electricity grid.The idea behind SolaRoad is simple: sunlight falling on the road surface is absorbed by solar cells and converted into electricity – the road surface acts as a large solar panel. The electricity generated in this way will find practical applications in street lighting The pilot period will run for another two and half years to see how well the panels hold up and how much electricity they generate. Since opening six months ago, more than 150,000 bicyclists have used the road. |
