Businesses interested in lowering energy costs, reducing their carbon footprint and pollution find hybrid lighting products as a viable economical option.
PONCA CITY, Okla. – In the first joint project of its kind in north central Oklahoma, Southwind Energy, an enterprise of the Kaw Nation partnered with Pioneer Technology Center, and Ponca City Energy to assemble and install a wind and solar lighting unit in Ponca City.
Career tech students and instructors received hands experience assembling and wiring the turbine and solar panels. Students were enthusiastic about the experience of participating in a green energy project.
Ponca City Energy supervisors and crews assisted with technical and foundation advice, raising and setting the hybrid unit.
Southwind Energy spokesperson Ken Luttrell said “the Kaw Enterprise Development Authority has been excited to work with these students from career tech and with Ponca City Energy to bring innovative alternative energy technology to the area. The Kaw Nation, known as The Wind People has a long heritage and relationship with the south wind and a commitment to renewable green energy.”
Southwind Energy is a distributor and installer of wind and solar hybrid lighting. Cost effective and easy to install the devices provide strong, bright lighting for large parking lots such as shopping, medical and corporate centers. Streets, sidewalks, bike paths, security, farm and ranch lighting are all perfectly suited for their application.
Businesses interested in lowering energy costs, reducing their carbon footprint and pollution find hybrid lighting products as a viable economical option.
Designed to operate with no line voltage, trenching or metering the units offer significant benefits over traditional grid based electrical lighting reducing pollution, power consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The LED lighting should last 100,000 hours compared to conventional lights 10,000 hour life with substantial energy savings. Turbines and solar panels have a life expectancy of 20-25 years with virtually no maintenance. There is a substantial cost savings over five years compared to usual systems. .
Southwind’s upcoming projects include career tech involvement in a vertical axis wind turbine generator assembly and the installation of a lighting unit at the Kaw Nation tribal complex in Kaw City illuminating the Warrior and Horse statue.
David Myers, Ponca City Development Executive wrote about the project in his weekly update. “Our friends at the Kaw Enterprise Development Authority have themselves a wind and solar dual energy generator for their newest public lighting project. The Sepstar Hybrid system is a customized stand alone, self-sufficient clean energy power source that can generate electricity through both solar and wind resources and store it off the utility grid in high performance batteries.” “The unit installed by KEDA uses a 400 watt wind turbine and two 75 watt solar panels to power the lighting and store the excess energy. The light created by the high efficiency low voltage LED unit is impressive. Congratulations on their sustainability efforts.”
Southwind’s upcoming projects include career tech involvement in a vertical axis wind turbine generator assembly and the installation of a lighting unit at the Kaw Nation tribal complex in Kaw City illuminating the Warrior and Horse statue.
COURTESY KEN LUTTRELL | SOUTHWIND ENERGY