When a storm knocks out the grid, even basic necessities such as lighting can quickly become a safety issue. That’s why a Bay News 9 segment out of Tampa, Florida, about a local solar streetlight company resonated with people looking for practical ways to keep communities brighter during outages.
What happened?
A Reddit thread drew attention to a Bay News 9 report about a Tampa-area company whose solar streetlights are built to stay on when the local power system fails.
Because each light runs off-grid and stores power in batteries, an outage that would shut down standard streetlights does not necessarily turn these systems off.
According to the article, 13,000 streetlights are in use, with 5,000 of them in Pasco County, and another 100 on the way…