Newly-launched Danish company Scotia has developed a solar-powered streetlight designed to work in low levels of sunlight, using less energy than it generates and feeding energy back into the power network.
The firm put its Scotia™ SunMast solar-powered outdoor lighting columns under the scrutiny of some of the world's leading environmentalists at last year’s Copenhagen Climate Conference, to demonstrate the feasibility of emissions-free lighting even at northern latitudes.
The goal of the project is to provide the Bella Centre, the venue for the 2009 UN climate conference, with a well-lit outdoor environment that doesn’t produce carbon emissions.