Street lighting is an essential part of the urban environment, allowing both residents and tourists to feel safer and happier in the area. Using renewables, the rollout of street lighting can be accelerated and completed at a lower cost, while minimising the carbon impact of the scheme.
Our design utilises local materials and expertise to provide a green solution for street lighting, tapping into the underused wind energy resources in coastal Peru. By providing localised energy, we create community hotspots where locals and tourists can congregate, and ensures cheap and reliable power for small devices such as smartphones.
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Here is our Report Submission, highlighting some key features not visible in the renders above and going into further depth.
A brief synopsis of our key Unique Selling Points are:
Using the invasive tree species (Tamarix) as a core material reducing costs and helping to fight its desertification affects on the natural environment.
Our Turbines will be made out of wood, avoiding the use of toxic process' involved in plastic and metal manufacture. In general our idea is revolved around utilising, enhancing and protecting the natural environment.
We are making use of Peru's natural resources (solar and wind) - abundant opportunities for significant amounts of renewable energy production due to Peru's natural geography.
As seen in renders, modular design leading to practicality and easy manufacture/installation. Can be seen that although this is an 'attractive' solution it is also feasible and realistic.
Targeting key problems in Lobitos and Pedritas (unreliable electricity supply, lack of street lighting, desertification) as well as aiming to help modernise the areas. This compound nature, means we are not just purely providing solutions to problems but also improving infrastructure to help further projects grow, increasing the economic strength of these villages to bring them into the modern era.