Six months age in November 2014, SolaRoad opened a world's first solar path which is 230 feet long that generates energy, in Krommenie, a village northwest of the Dutch city of Amsterdam.It generated 3,000 kWh of electricity or enough to power a single person home for a year.It is three year project which costs 3.5-million Euros.
A spokeman of SolaRoad, Sten de Wit said, "We did not expect a yield as high as this so quickly.The bike road opened half a year ago and already generated over 3,000 kWh. "If we translate this to an annual yield, we expect more than the 70 kWh per square meter per year, which we predicted as an upper limit in the laboratory stage."
The solar panels are fitted underneath a path which is made up of 2.5 by 3.5 meters concrete modules.The solar panels are protected by a centimetre thick layer of safety glass.The transparent, skid-resistant glass that can support bicycles and vehicles.Since the solar path opened, it has been crossed by 150,000 cyclists just in six months.The test run project will remain open for another two and a half years.
Looking to the future, TNO project manager Wim ven der Poel said, "Using this energy to charge electric cars while they are driving over the road is a beautiful dream, which might become reality. SolaRoad acts as a step towards a closed ecosystem.From mobility through energy back to mobility – which makes the circle complete."
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