Solar Power Australia’s solar powered bus shelter lighting systems increase public safety and reduce the likelihood of vandalism. These purpose-built solar lighting systems are adaptable to most bus shelter designs and have sufficient energy production to provide light from dusk til dawn.

Our bus shelter lighting systems incorporate low profile, light weight UNI-SOLAR flexible solar panels. The UNI-SOLAR stick-on amorphous thin-film solar modules virtually become part of the bus shelter roof. These vandal resistant glass-less modules are more shade and heat tolerant than typical crystalline modules and are better suited to pick-up incident light.

The power from the UNI-SOLAR modules is directed to the maintenance-free gel batteries via an advanced Blue Sky Energy Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) solar controller. These US built controllers boost the daily energy production by up to 30% and they have proven to be one of the most reliable MPPT solar regulators currently available.

Solar Power Australia designed and supplied one of these bus shelter solar lighting systems for Newcastle City Council. The system, which features vandal resistant LED strip lights, was installed in Mayfield NSW on one of their busiest bus shelters.

Please contact us for more information on these systems.

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Australian Resource Focus speaks with Brett Sutherland about Solar Power Australia, how the company has grown, where it’s going and why solar is so important.

As the article points out, the solar market is no longer a niche area, it’s a highly competitive and whether or not you believe in global warming, the cost of electricity is sky rocketing and most people are looking at ways to reduce their energy bill.

As Brett explains, “ “What they talk about now is solar power achieving grid parity, and they believe in Australia it’s pretty close. What that essentially means is that your investment to install a solar power system to produce an amount of energy will be recouped within 25 years, which is within the life of the system. The price of power from the grid is regularly increasing, whereas the cost of solar power is coming down. So it definitely has a place.”

The full article is online at the AFR website.