A solar-powered road stud solution being used in the East Riding of Yorkshire to reduce emissions from streetlighting has won a “Dragons’ Den”-style pitching session at the ADEPT Live Labs 2 expo.
The Clearview Intelligence SolarLite solution uses solar powered illuminated road studs to provide Lane delineation to examine how they can be used instead of streetlighting, cutting carbon and light pollution while maintaining safety.
“We truly feel this is a transformative solution to change the way we light our roads whilst ensuring safety runs through the veins of our decarbonising agenda,” commented Head of Business Development Ralph Bates. “Extended thanks to our Live Labs project team headed up by Karl Rourke and John Lamb for believing in this solution and helping us take things to the next level.”
The solution was chosen among a range of Net Zero-focussed solutions presented at the meeting in Liverpool to ‘Dragons’ Rupert Furness, Deputy Director, Local Highways and Active Travel at the Department for Transport, Angela Halliwell, Head of Carbon and Air Quality Group at National Highways, and Mike Batheram, Market Director for Local Transport from Atkins Réalis.
“This project is already receiving early recognition, with a view to be setting a new standard for lighting design and supporting the DfT with a step change in the normalisation and uptake of low carbon solutions,” Ralph Bates continued. “Local residents to the test beds in East Riding of Yorkshire have already provided overwhelmingly positive feedback and encourage the replacement of traditional lighting columns with this new low carbon delineation solution which gives them back their dark skies and maintains/improves road safety.
“Rather than local authorities designing in swathes of street lighting on new road developments, because that’s what they’ve always done, they can actually now be better informed. We can show that there’s a better way of doing things with huge carbon savings as well as huge financial savings.”
You can view the slides from Ralph Bates’ presentation here.
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