Africa Solar Football Stadium Can Also Power Generation

Facing the renewable energy to provide unlimited possibilities, Africa has been awake, the African Union will invest $200 million for these solar power system in the next ten years. In East Africa, according to the need to buy solar service has gradually become mainstream. In West Africa, everything is still in the experimental stage. More characteristics of the test project is one of a solar football -- apart from solar outside, it can use playing football to generate kinetic energy.

The solar stadium is Located in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital of a normal university, is the product of the tripartite cooperation -- energy giant shell, is committed to promote solar energy in Africa of American singer Akon (Akon), and will provide Africa low cost renewable energy power solution set as the important goal of British companies Pavegen.

This is the world's second off grid solar system stadium, the first built in Brazil in 2014. The most interesting place in the stadium is that it is not only use solar energy, also use kinetic energy.

Pavegen technology is to use ball-park "tiles" to capture the players coming from the kinetic energy, for this reason to generate electricity. This energy is sufficient to meet the low voltage system, as like street lamps demand can also store up power for later use.

Not only solar energy generate electricity, can also play-consuming physical solar energy into electrical energy not only generate electricity, but also can play consuming physical energy into electrical energy

Under Ball-park turf there are 100 pieces of these special "tiles", get their energy from the movement players. Total generating capacity of the kinetic energy and solar panel can ensure the community 24 hours street lighting.

More play, pavegen generation technology are more and more, is not difficult to imagine, this technique is actually most suitable for many people of the area, such as schools, sports center and market. Company founder Campbell - Cook (Laurence Kemball-Cook) introduced said, solar power stadium just to show people some possible.” The project tell us, the future energy to how the blend morphology, solar energy and kinetic energy can bring what kind of improvement to our community.” "

Their off grid solar power system stadium approach clearly provides a possibility to solve the power problem in Africa, but to really reach the goal, must also find a way to mass production, and to achieve the balance in terms of cost.



Posted by Sarah Hwong,Feb.26,2016