Innovative alternative energy companies will soon be having a bigger impact, both in our energy and transportation infrastructure, and on Wall Street. One such company, Envision Solar International – a global solar planner, architect and inventor of clean energy systems – officially became a publicly traded company, yesterday.
Envision Solar is the first company to invent and build structures for generating solar energy from the millions of acres of unused, underutilized parking spaces. Parking lots that previously just provided a home for your car while bouncing vast amounts of heat into the atmosphere can now become a clean energy source with the potential to optimize power production during hot summer afternoons when electricity is most valuable. Envision Solar is helping top companies like McDonald’s, Dell, Johnson & Johnson and Kyocera (pictured above) with their green efforts by installing solar parking arrays that visibly demonstrate their commitment to sustainable energy.
As of today, Envision Solar has designed and/or installed more than nine megawatts of solar arrays for commercial, residential and public entities with products including Solar Tree®, Solar Row™, LifePort®, LifePod™ and LifeVillage™ and others.
Dell recently installed a Solar Grove (above) an array of pole-mounted, solar-panels created by Envision Solar—in their parking lot last year at their corporate headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. The fact that the solar installation is visible from a nearby highway only enhances Dell’s image as a ‘green’ company.
Even companies like McDonald’s (above) are seeing the benefit of solar with the installment of a Solar Grove and CleanCharge vehicle charging system at a San Diego location.
The system provides the restaurant with an array of Solar Trees, equipped with an electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle charging station. The Solar Trees provide shade for diners’ vehicles, while simultaneously allowing the restaurant to offset some of its energy usage through the grid-connected solar system. The CleanCharge solar-to-electric vehicle charging station also allows customers to recharge plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles while they dine.
see more project photos in Envision’s project portfolio
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Really great way to produce power – and shade the cars :D