Solar Panel Roadway Prototype

Solar roadways incorporated is an american company based in sandpoint idaho aiming to develop solar powered road panels to form a smart highway.

Solar panel roadway prototype.

The energy generated by solar panel will replace the current. A 200 million innovation experiment where businesses entrepreneurs innovators and students share their best ideas on how to build the. Four years ago scott and julie brusaw announced their provocative concept of solar roadways a system of modular solar panels that could be paved directly onto roads parking lots driveways. Solar power highways are hitting a roadblock.

Sandpoint based solar panel company solar roadways unveiled their first pilot project in downtown sandpoint after much fanfare and a few glitches the 150 square foot 30 panel installation is a prototype of interconnected solar panels encased in tempered glass which the company hopes will revolutionize the way we construct roads and parking lots and generate. The panels have microprocessors which makes them intelligent. Welcome to solar roadways solar roadways sr is a modular system of specially engineered solar panels that can be walked and driven upon. This year solar roadways has entered ge s ecomagination challenge.

The solar roadway is a series of well designed and engineered solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all currently using asphalt roads parking slots and driveways with solar road panels that collect energy to be used by houses hospitals schools industries etc. In 2009 solar roadways received a contract from the federal highway administration to build the first ever solar road panel prototype. They contain heating elements to prevent snow and ice accumulation.

Their proof of concept technology is a hexagonal road panel that has a glass driving surface with underlying solar cells electronics and sensors to act as a part of solar array with programmable capability.