Flat and diagonal paving of solar power stations

What is solar pavement?

Solar pavement is used as a more general term for paved surfaces that incorporate solar PV technology, of which PLATIO is one example. Solar pavement allows for solar energy generation from driveways, sidewalks, patios and other hardscape areas.

What is platio solar pavement?

Hungarian tech company Platio has developed a new kind of solar pavement that could be used for outdoor applications in urban environments, homes, office buildings, shopping malls, and public infrastructure projects. The pavement can operate at safe low voltages and can be assembled with 8.6 kg walkable solar tiles, known as Platio Solar Pavers.

What is solar pavers?

Solar Paver technology is a panel of photovoltaic cells built to be installed as concrete pavers on existing road systems to utilize exposed sunlit surfaces to generate renewable energy (see: Figure 1 ). Solar pavers can function on roads with both vehicular and foot traffic.

Why is road space a resource for photovoltaic panels?

In these cases, the road space consumption becomes a resource for the installation of photovoltaic panels to be embedded into the infrastructure (e.g., noise barriers , solar arches and canopies ).

Which solar cells can be used in PV pavement?

Moreover, some emerging solar cells, such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) , organic solar cells (OSC) , and perovskite solar cells (PSC) , might be promising and competitive in the PV pavement field with lower cost in the future.

How much energy does a solar pavement generate?

Just 20m2 of the solar pavement is equal to the yearly average electric energy need of a household. The new installation, in a park in the Glòries area, will generate 7,560kWh of energy a year, enough for three households. The project forms part of the city’s drive to become carbon neutral by 2050.