Intelligent Transport Systems is a system that keeps infrastructure under control and will represent an extraordinary added value in the fight against polluting emissions. Two days ago, Italy took the first step to understand its real potential to be developed with other applications. He did it at a service station on the A1.
Illuminating a station or operating a toll booth by exploiting the passage of vehicles are the objectives of the project Kinetic energy harvesting from vehicles” (KEHV).
Vehicles arrive at service stations at low speed and the company Movyon (Autostrade per l'Italia) tries for the first time to transform motorists into guardians of the environment.
The tests started at a station in Tuscany are based on laboratory estimates. Second Build news the average daily passage of 9 thousand vehicles with a single piece of equipment can produce 30 Megawatt hours per year equivalent to the reduction of 11 tonnes of CO2. “A value that corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of a condominium made up of 10 families,” explains the company
A unique project in the world
The ambition is high. The Autostrade company intends to create a platform, integrated with other management and monitoring systems, to have other clean energy in addition to the already widespread photovoltaic energy.
The operation inspired by the conversion of unused primary energy fits into the industrial reconversion plans without upsetting the landscape.
The car or other vehicle passes over an installed module and starts an electromechanical generator. The electricity produced, at this point, feeds the electricity grid through an energy converter.
By having it on the grid, that energy can power everything that runs on the highway.
Le barriers of Milan North and Milan South, for example, they have a daily traffic of 8 thousand heavy vehicles and 63 thousand light vehicles. By placing the modules there will be "a total annual production for each of the two stations of over 200 MWh, with a saving of 70 tons of CO2/year" he explains Builtd.
Eventually there will be a national electricity grid on the A1 where every motorist entering the motorway activates an energy process. All gratis et amore Patriae.
