Solar Powered Billboard

Posted on July 13th, 2007 in Design, Innovation by Puneet Sarda

Came across this post on Trendhunter about a solar powered billboard. Quoting from their site

South Africa’s NEDBank won a Cannes Lions 2007 Grand Prix Award in outdoor advertising for what is believed to be the world’s first solar-powered billboard. The topper? This revolutionary billboard uses the power it generates to power the kitchen of a local school - helping prepare food for 1100 kids.

Now that’s a bank that truly gives “power to the people” - and that’s a billboard that not just is the world’s first solar-powered billboard, but a solar empowerment tool!

Brilliant as the African sun!

Check out the video below



I found a true example of an innovative solutions. We have 1000’s and 1000’s of billboards all around us and all they do is stand on the ground day and night. Yet it has taken so many years to come up with this idea to put solar panels on them to generate electricity even though the solution (now that you think about it) was right in our face all the time. 2 Thumb’s up to NEDBank for doing such a humane act