Future Solar Panel Roads

Building solar roads is not a one man or one country operation.

Future solar panel roads.

These projects have been generating power for some years already so the idea is not in principle impossible. Solar roadways replace asphalt roads with solar panels designed to generate solar energy. 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.

Prototypes have been constructed in the netherlands with a cycle lane constructed by solaroad and in france with a project that claimed to be the first solar panel road. Solar roads are very expensive. While an interesting and innovative way to generate solar power solar roadways are far from being a realistic cost effective energy production method. Welcome to solar roadways solar roadways sr is a modular system of specially engineered solar panels that can be walked and driven upon.

As a fantastic example the wattway solar road in france is 8 5 times more expensive per watt than a traditional solar panel farm. The future of solar roads doesn t look too good. The cost of solar roads per square meter is astronomically more expensive than normal solar panels. China s data suggests that it s not a viable plan to bring in large annual numbers of generated electricity.

But there are pitfalls inherent to the concept. Solar roads might seem like a novel idea turning every road into a solar energy generating platform seems downright utopic. A solar farm located in the open space just next to the road would be significantly. The panels have microprocessors which makes them intelligent.

Solar roadways incorporated is an american company based in sandpoint idaho aiming to develop solar powered road panels to form a smart highway. Our panels contain led lights to create lines and signage without paint.