Not the first solar carport to be built, but when GE enter a market you can be pretty certain that it is about to get a serious push.
The GE EV Solar Carport Project made its debut in Plainville, Connecticut. With greater than a 25-year lifespan, the EV Solar Carport will annually deliver 125 MWh via 100 kW DC power, according to GE.
GE Energy Industrial Solutions combined forces with Inovateus Solar LLC, a national solar power distributor and integrator, to install the carport. The companies use solar energy and smart grid technology to fully charge up to 13 electric vehicles per day via six Level 2 GE EV Charging Stations and to power the overhead lighting in the parking lot.
The carport is a working lab to test out the hardware and software.
What carports do is double the effective range of an EV by enabling employee and visitor car charging @home and @work. Plus of course a carport enables fleet vehicle charging during both the day and the night.
Range anxiety? Nope...
Range anxiety? Nope...
