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Solar-powered streetlights set to illuminate Austin community
Austin’s Novel community development will be home to 40 new solar-powered streetlights to provide residents with enhanced safety and power reliability.
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Who: Risewell Homes; Streetleaf.
What: A new master-planned community in Austin, Texas, will be home to 40 new solar-powered streetlights to provide residents with enhanced safety and power reliability.
Why: To provide homeowners with a fully maintained, grid-independent option that enhances safety and offers long-term cost savings.
When: Called Novel, the development is located in South Austin, Texas.
A new master-planned community in Austin, Texas, will be home to 40 new solar-powered streetlights to provide residents with enhanced safety and power reliability.
The Novel development will host 40 of Streetleaf’s solar-powered streetlights throughout the development, allowing the community to operate independently from the power grid.
100 per cent renewable energy
With built-in battery backup, 24/7 monitoring and powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, the lights stay on during outages, according to Streetleaf – including hurricanes and winter – adding an extra layer of reliability and safety for growing communities.
The installation has been made possible through an agreement with Risewell Homes, a recently elevated top 25 US homebuilder.
“Providing homeowners with a fully maintained, grid-independent option that enhances safety and offers long-term cost-savings made Streetleaf a strong fit for this development,” said Adib Khoury, Austin division president of Risewell Homes. “It aligns with our focus on sustainable, high-efficiency, and tech-forward construction, and we’re excited to bring a solution like this to our new community.”
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“This first installation with Risewell Homes in Austin marks another progressive move for Streetleaf in Texas, as we’ve previously brightened neighbourhoods across Fort Worth with our solar streetlights,” said Liam Ryan, CEO of Streetleaf.
“We’re continuing to see growing demand for reliable and resilient solar power throughout the state, and we look forward to illuminating more communities throughout Texas in the near future.”
“Providing homeowners with a fully maintained, grid-independent option that enhances safety and offers long-term cost savings made Streetleaf a strong fit for this development”
Headquartered in Tampa, Florida and founded in 2019, Streetleaf claims it has installed more 12,200 lights across the country, from Florida to California, and is rapidly growing to meet the rising demand for resilient, sustainable solutions. Streetleaf uses proprietary hardware, software, and service to partner with land developers, builders, municipalities, utilities, and HOAs to create safer, greener communities.
A carbon-neutral certified company, Streetleaf is also Darksky approved, and has offset more than four million pounds of CO2 to date.
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