Pvilion’s new Solar Sail charging station to debut in Texas

FabricArchitectureMag.com | March 19, 2012

The Solar Sail—with integrated LED RGB lighting—brings art and science together to promote clean energy for electric cars in the Austin, Texas nearby community of Pflugerville. The Solar Sail charging station has been installed by Pvilion as a demonstration to the green energy savvy Pflugerville community, which soon will become home to the largest solar panel array in the United States as a beneficiary of major investments in solar-generated technologies by local and national businesses and the Department of Energy. The Solar Sail charging station is located at the entrance to Pflugerville’s new Renewable Energy Park.

Solar Sail is a turn-key product from tensile-PV startup Pvilion that offers ready, out-of-the-truck “one wire in/one wire out” easy installation. It has been engineered by licensed professionals to meet permanent building code wind and snow loads.

The charging station will be unveiled on April 5, 2012 at an event sponsored by Pvilion and the Pflugerville Community Development Corp., in partnership with the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Source: Pvilion

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  Tim Moltz

  Apr 7, 2012
  3:06 am CDT

  First electrical rechagre station in Pflugerville, Texas

  Come out to Pflugerville in the evening, and see how Pvillion has brought together art and solar power to help provide power at this electric recharging station. Not only does the Solar Sail look interesting in its own right, as a structure, during the day and at night when lit up, it is functioning very well and we look forward to seeing increased use of the location by electric cars in the near future. It was great working with the Pvillion staff to develop this site and help them bring their product to Texas and make it a reality.