{"id":23393,"date":"2016-03-11T03:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-with-groundbreaking-roll-array-photovoltaics"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:52:16","slug":"solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-with-groundbreaking-roll-array-photovoltaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-with-groundbreaking-roll-array-photovoltaics","title":{"rendered":"Solar energy rolls out like a carpet with groundbreaking Roll-Array photovoltaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/145871430\" width=\"889\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Renovagen Roll-Array Multi-Gen\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renovagen.com\/?services=rollable-pv-array\">Roll-Array<\/a> is easily towable by a standard 4\u00d74 vehicle such as a Land Rover. When connected to the back of the car, the flexible solar panels are pulled out of a spool and create ground cover in a matter of minutes. On their website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renovagen.com\/\">Renovagen<\/a> claims the panels will be able generate up to 100kWp \u2013 10 times more power than other transportable solar panels on the market today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-with-groundbreaking-roll-array-photovoltaics.jpg\" alt=\"solar power, solar energy, alternative energy, solar panels on a roll, rollable solar panels, Roll-array, rollarray, Renovagen, John Hingley, flexible solar panels, pv array, photovoltaic, photovoltaic panels, rolling solar panels\" width=\"889\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only is this new technology installed quickly, but the fuel cost savings during transportation is noteworthy. The tightly wound solar spools can be carried by the 4\u00d74 vehicle attached to a small air pallet trailer in tow, which eliminates the need for large <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/diesel\/\">diesel generators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-with-groundbreaking-roll-array-photovoltaics\/\">http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/solar-energy-rolls-out-like-a-carpet-wi...ovoltaics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roll-Array is easily towable by a standard 4\u00d74 vehicle such as a Land Rover. When connected to the back of the car, the flexible solar panels are pulled out of a spool and create ground cover in a matter of minutes. On their website, Renovagen claims the panels will be able generate up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43188,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions\/43188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}