Increasing Safety and Security We have firsthand experience with solar street lighting for municipalities. In cities like Combes, Tucson and Albuquerque, older neighborhoods had no street lighting. Either it was never installed, or it was [...]

Utah's DOT recently installed solar lighting for rural intersections in Millard County, improving safety.  Roads are one of the critical areas of need for rural infrastructure.  Millard County used a BUILD grant in 2020 for [...]

Last summer, the City of Lincoln, Nebraska installed solar lighting at the Jamaica North Trailhead. Most municipalities install solar street lighting to cut initial installation costs. Lincoln understood those savings. There is no trenching, wiring [...]

Solar LED street lights solve a number of challenges.  Last week, we shared our finding that 25% of municipalities had tried solar lighting (most of them in the past 5 years).  This video shows why [...]

Growing interest in Municipal Solar Street Lighting As part of our outreach for the past year, we've been surveying municipal decisions makers.*  We found that 23% of participants had installed solar lighting in their communities. [...]

Our solar lighting systems protect you from copper wire theft and we're also vandal-proofing solar lighting. Vandal-Proofing Solar Lighting Batteries Part of the beauty of the SmartLight system is that the robust battery packs are [...]

Continuing Education: Earn 1.5 free credits with AEC's commercial solar outdoor lighting course. AEC Daily is now offering a Solar Lighting Course by Fonroche Lighting America.  This 1.5 CEU Course for solar lighting is accepted [...]

Solar Street Light Savings I’m often asked about solar lighting ROI based on electricity savings. It is true that you will never get any electric bills from the sun. But you don’t need to wait [...]

A symbolic location under development The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (CRIR) was created in 1889. It covers an area of 4,267 square miles in South Dakota, making it the fourth-largest Indian reservation in the United [...]

So what differentiates one solar lighting system from another? Why do some outdoor solar lighting systems provide reliable all-night lighting for 10 years while other's struggle to make it through the night?