Wouldn’t it be great if all outdoor parking lots had a nice canopy that could shade your car from the sun’s rays and other harsh outdoor elements, as well as generate electricity for surrounding facilities?

Well, that’s exactly what the employees have at the Agilent Technologies campus in Santa Rosa, California.

Agilent Technologies, which provides electronic and bio-analytical measurement services, has partnered with SunPower Corporation, designers and manufacturers of solar panel solutions, to create a SunPower Tracker. This SunPower Tracker is going to greatly reduce the carbon footprint of the company, as well as save the company money in the years to come.

What is a SunPower Tracker?

The SunPower Tracker is a 1-megawatt solar tracking system that uses high efficiency solar cells and solar panels to generate solar power.

This ’solar canopy’ is not only is not only going to generate 25% more electricity than traditional solar rooftop panels, but it’s also going to offset over 33 million pounds of Agilent’s carbon dioxide emissions over the next 30 years!

Can you imagine how much of a positive impact this one solar parking lot is going to have on California, and the rest of the world? It’s the same kind of impact as GM’s Solar Panel Rooftop in Spain, Ma Yanjun’s Solar-Powered Beer Bottle Roof in China and Fenway Park’s Solar Heating System in Boston.

If this SunPower Tracker proves to be successful, we can only hope that parking lots around the country can adopt this energy efficient idea, and that solar energy will become a popular way to generate electricity for all companies.

Source: ENN.