Solar Panels Roads Netherlands

The dutch water management agency plans to install solar panels along both sides of the a37 highway in drenthe province as well as on the median strip to cover 300 hectares in total.

Solar panels roads netherlands.

In addition to being one of the most bike friendly places in europe the netherlands is about to make their bike lanes even more green by paving them with solar panels. The pair whose company solar roadways has received millions in funding from the us federal highway administration are now working on getting their designs out to the country s public roads. American company solar roadways is hoping to turn highways smart using solar panels sensors and led lights for traffic. While the netherlands has been the fastest country to embrace the technology of solar roads scattered projects around the world are following suit most notably a couple of american engineers julie and scott brusaw who earlier this year replaced their parking lot with solar panels.

Though the netherlands solar road seems to be going as planned solar roads overall typically aren t as effective at producing energy as solar arrays on a house or in a field. The bike path that connects the amsterdam suburbs of krommenie and wormerveer is a 70 meter stretch of solar powered roadway set to open for the public on november 12th 2014. The aim of the project is to test the practicality and cost efficiency of embedding solar panels into a cycle path. The new solar road which costs 3m aud 4 3m was created.

Solar panels embedded in the cycle path near amsterdam could generate enough electricity to power three houses with potential to extend scheme to roads solaroad in krommenie the netherlands will. The world s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the netherlands. The netherlands made headlines last year when it built the world s first solar road an energy harvesting bike path paved with glass coated solar panels. Solar roads in november 2014 solaroad the world s first experimental solar cycle path was opened in the village of krommenie.