Solar Powered Parking Lot Lights - Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center - Sharpsburg, PA
N 39° 28.430 W 077° 44.693
18S E 263891 N 4372957
There are several of these solar powered lights for the Antietam National Battlefield parking lot. These new lights are typical of the effort to make our National parks go green.
Waymark Code: WMD85E
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/03/2011
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A bunch of these lights at Sharpsburg and at this battlefield have been retrofitted with solar panels. These photovoltaic systems are at three different parks, C&O Canal, (Fort Washington Park) National Capital Parks East and here, Antietam National Battlefield. These designs ranged from lighting for a bridge, a parking lot (right here!), and a flagpole to providing electricity for the entrance booth at Fort Washington Park. Maryland, much like my home state of New Jersey has gone green.
Initially a report was prepared for the Energy Partnerships Program under an agreement between the National Park Service (National Capital Region) and James Madison University. A Memorandum of Agreement between the two parties outlines generally the scope of work to be conducted and the rest is history, or a waymark.
Photovoltaics (PV) can be used essentially anywhere in the United States where there is an open space that receives sunlight (is not shaded). The technical effectiveness increases of PV increases closer to the equator, where maximum solar insolation1 is received year-round (with more sunshine there is more electrical output).