Solar “Trees” in Parking Lots…
Google Plants Solar Trees (from Wired). Neat and compelling…
…search giant Google joining other companies in planting groves of pole-mounted solar panels between the rows of Saabs and SUVs, generating clean power and providing a little shade at the same time.
Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters is getting a 1.6-megawatt solar system — enough to power about 1,000 homes — that will feed about 30 percent of the complex’s power demand. About a third of the 9,000 solar panels Google’s installing will take the form of overhanging parking shades at the million-square-foot campus in Mountain View. The others will be mounted on rooftops.
Google hired Energy Innovations to design and build the project, which should be completed by spring.
Heres some more info about Energy Innovations
