Solar panel 'Mallee tree' sculptures at the Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Excert from the 2006 Adelaide Festival Centre Annual report. "As part of the Adelaide Green City project, a joint initiative of the State Government and the Adelaide City Council for Adelaide to be internationally recognised as a green city, solar ‘Mallee Trees’ were installed on the Festival Theatre plaza, near the entrance to the Art Space. The indigenous ‘mallee trees’ provide an abstract contemporary form for solar lights. The ‘trees’ harness the solar energy through their ‘canopy’ in the form of laminated oval shaped solar panels. Energy is directed into the electricity grid with electronic data visible at the base of the trees. Each solar ‘tree’ is able to produce an average of 864 KWh but only uses 125 KWh of energy per annum. The total annual excess production of 2 217 KWh is returned to the power grid. This saves tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per annum,equivalent to planting six real trees per ‘trees’ have an audio interpretive feature informing the public about Adelaide as Green City. At night they become a source of light on the plaza."
Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Photo credit: © Adrian Lyon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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