Netherlands Solar Panel Bike Path

A solar bike path trial in the netherlands has exceeded all expectations and will now be rolled out to a road with heavier traffic.

Netherlands solar panel bike path.

Fittingly for the cycle crazy dutch the first solaroad is a bike path not far from amsterdam. Now six months into the trial engineers say the system is working even better than expected with the 70 metre test bike path generating 3 000 kwh or enough electricity to power a small household for a year. The aim of the project is to test the practicality and cost efficiency of embedding solar panels into a cycle path. The path was formally opened in november 2014 by the dutch minister.

The solaroad is the world s first bike path made from solar panels and is a prototype project testing the feasibility of various proposals for smart highways the 72 metre 236 ft path opened in the week of 21 october 2014 and was designed by a consortium of organizations which built the pathway in krommenie netherlands. The project attracted great attention both inside and outside the netherlands and within the first year after the solar bike path opened 300 000 cyclists and scooters rode over it. In november 2014 solaroad the world s first experimental solar cycle path was opened in the village of krommenie. The path is special because one of its two lanes is equipped with solar panels that can feed energy back to the grid.

The path is built of massive lego like modules of solar panels embedded in concrete each with heavy. The netherlands has unveiled the world s first solar bike path a revolutionary project to harvest the sun s energy that could eventually also be used on roads. Although the path. Power generated by the solaroad s panels will be.

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. By 2018 residential solar pv had more than doubled to 2 307 mw. The solaroad pilot cycle path alongside the n203 near krommenie.