17 Oct
2010
Rock Solar Light
Sunlight Community Save $ 75,000
Turtle Rock, a small sub-community in the larger development known as Palmer Ranch, may be the first community in the United States the adoption of solar technology for your street lights.
solar street lighting recently appeared in distant places and unlikely, especially Tanzania, Dubai, Afghanistan and Nigeria, but Turtle Rock is, for all we know, the first in Florida (and first place in the U.S.) to use widely.
Palmer Ranch, Sarasota's largest master-planned community, covers 10,000 hectares and consists of eight communities, including Turtle Rock is one. The number actual lighting in Turtle Rock is 175.
This year, the community of retirees and young families faced a $ 75,000 bill for lighting natural gas public. A change of some kind was inevitable. solar street lighting may have come as something of a surprise to some residents, but once the credit solar investment tax (60,000 dollars) was applied, costs are down significantly and lost the opposition.
Bob Knickerbocker, who sits Turtle Rock aboard homeowners association, which he calls a "green" in the first place that residents are saving a lot of money, which makes everyone happy in these lean times.
More important lighting, solar street is relatively free of maintenance. A post installation support Photovoltaic (PV) panel, and above that is a battery. At day's end, the energy stored in the battery of photovoltaic panel lights an LED (Light Emitting Diode light) bulb. Those in Turtle Rock are rated at 7 watts, but LED lighting is more direct, so the current lighting is about twice what lights were producing gas. Most important light bulbs, LEDs last 25,000 hours, compared to 1,200 for a standard incandescent bulb of 100 watts. At 10 hours per night, this is 7 years between bulb changes.
The final cost? About $ 120,000, but the new lights also emit zero carbon emissions which means Turtle Rock is reducing its emissions footprint of about 420 tons. This is equivalent to taking about 70 cars off the road.
The system was installed by the solar industry pioneer Tom Harriman, who is licensed by solar in 1982. Harriman, former president of the Florida Association of Solar Energy Industry an innovator in the formation of alternative energies, has been recognized by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as a leader in the solar industry. EDF is a nonprofit with US-based advocacy group environment.
Throughout his life working as an installer of solar systems, Harriman says, he has reduced emissions of CO2 by almost 2 million tonnes.
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