The Solar Gen2 solar-powered LED-based street light is competitive with grid-based street lights and delivers 98% power-conversion efficiency from the photovoltaic cells to battery.

At the recent CES show in Las Vegas, Philips Lighting and NXP Semiconductors NV (Nasdaq:NXPI) based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, demonstrated the recently introduced Solar Gen2 solar-powered street light. The street light is designed to supplement the capacity of conventional electric grids in urban areas by charging during daylight hours, or to provide off-grid street lighting.

The street light combines very high brightness and energy efficiency with patented optics to provide a lamp that can be spaced up to 50 meters pole-to-pole. Wider spacing allows a reduction in the total cost of road lighting.

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