A solar energy company based in the UK has introduced the first-ever lighting tower that uses the power the sun to illuminate a lighting tower that can be operated at zero cost indefinitely.
Developed over a period of three years, the new SMC Solar-2 lighting tower generates more power each day from its solar panels than it actually requires to produce a steady flow of light each night of operation. This excess power to requirement ration means that the tower can turn itself on every night for eight to ten hours via a photocell light sensor without any human intervention or assistance from an outside power or fuel source.
This type of breakthrough in solar technology could revolutionize the way highway lights or streetlights in residential areas are illuminated because it is environmentally friendly, produces no emission, costs nothing to operate and doesn’t produce any noise.
Phil Winnington, managing director of Morris Site Machinery, the company that developed the product, said this could be the breakthrough science has been waiting for.
“there is an increasing demand for technology which reduces carbon emissions and our solar lighting tower is a bespoke solution to meet this,” Winnington told the materials handling website HUB.