{"id":1401,"date":"2005-07-11T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/07\/11\/brc-11-they-paved-paradise\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T17:59:00","slug":"brc-11-they-paved-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/brc-11-they-paved-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"BRC 11: They Paved Paradise…"},"content":{"rendered":"
But this parking lot is solar-powered<\/a>. Mike at Green Car Congress gives us the details on Kyocera’s “Solar Grove”: “an array of 25 ‘solar trees’ that converts a 186-vehicle parking lot into a 235-kW solar electric generating system.”<\/p>\n Based on test conditions and adjusted for inverter efficiency estimated at 94%, the 235 kW system is capable of generating 421,000 kilowatt hours per year.<\/p>\n The system\u2019s 25 solar trees form a carport in a Kyocera employee parking lot, utilizing a total of 1,400 Kyocera KC-187G solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and 200 custom-manufactured, light-filtering PV modules….<\/p>\n The standard Kyocera solar modules used in the Solar Grove are covered by a 25-year manufacturer\u2019s warranty, and Kyocera anticipates that the Solar Grove will pay for itself within 12 years.<\/p>\n Adding vehicle-charging stanchions to such a design to support plug-in hybrids as well as full EVs seems a small additional step.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As long as we’re going to have parking lots (and I don’t see them going anywhere soon), this is a great step forward. Now if we can just get folks into those plug-in hybrid cars…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: solar power<\/a>, parking<\/a><\/p>\n