Dell HQ Gets a 130 kW Solar Parking Lot with Plug-In Charging Stations

dell solar parking lot photo

Park In the Shade, Recharge Your Plug-In Vehicle
Dell's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, now have a shaded solar parking structure called the Solar Grove. It was built by Envision Solar, and it has a capacity of 130 kilowatts, which should help avoid about 145,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year. But the clean electricity is only part of the benefit; there's also some energy savings that come from the shade produced by the "solar trees" since cooler cars don't need as much A/C.

CleanCharge by Envision Solar from Envision Solar on Vimeo.

The power produced by the solar panels will help power Dell's building and two charging stations for plug-in vehicles:

The Solar Trees®, located in the Dell employee parking lot, will simultaneously shade 50 parking spaces and generate clean electricity directly from the sun. In an example of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, the solar arrays also incorporate two Envision Solar CleanCharge™ solar charging stations utilizing Coulomb ChargPoint™ for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). Photos can be viewed here.

Via Envision Solar, Jetson Green

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