The Biggest Little City is getting solar-powered streetlights later this month.
StreetLeaf recently announced they will be placing streetlights in Nevada.
The company is set to illuminate streets through an agreement with D.R. Horton to light its Grand Pointe community.
StreetLeaf will be installing six solar-powered lights, each light designed for resilience and sustainability.
"We're offering the same amount of light, but our lights are installed with literally no strings attached, and what I mean by that is there is no wire, no conduit, and no digging holes that connect the lights to the standard utility grid," said Liam Ryan, CEO of StreetLeaf. "They're all their own standalone unit powered by the sun and powered by the lithium batteries that are powered by that solar power."
The lights being installed are DarkSky compliant, fully off-grid, and powered by renewable energy, meaning they stay on even during power outages. They can also withstand 160 mph winds.
Liam Ryan says when they introduce their lights into a new place, they try to give the community a better understanding of what their lights can do for the area.
Safety is something they heavily focus on as well, especially since they don't rely on a power grid.
"That also includes when the power is down; our lights still stay on," he said.
"Each of our streetlights saves around 200-300 pounds of coal that would be burnt to power a traditional streetlight, but on top of that, here at StreetLeaf, we also have an initiative where we plant a tree for every streetlight we plant in the earth," said Ryan.
