UK “energy and data from footsteps” firm Pavegen has launched (May 28th, 2019) a crowdfunding campaign to raise the additional £5m it needs to expand production of its revolutionary V3 energy generating tile, and make it at a lower unit cost. Pavegen, founded by Laurence Kemball-Cook, the company’s CEO, in 2009, came up with the… Continue reading
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Pavegen’s energy from footsteps tiles reach Washington DC
The power of the footstep was given a modest inauguration by the shoes of the staff of the British Embassy in Washington DC at the end of 2016, supporting a revolutionary renewable energy technology developed by UK company Pavegen. They joined pedestrians on Connecticut Avenue in the city to make their small but valuable contribution to… Continue reading →
Pavegen more than a walk on part in renewable energy generation
Could renewable energy start-up Pavegen become the Tesla of walking? Most of us, unless we have lost the use of our legs, walk some distance every day. Some of us are walking more, to meet health and fitness targets, with 10,000 steps a day one popular challenge. So perhaps citing a company that could soon… Continue reading →
Pavegen’s major walk-on part in renewable energy
In 2015 renewable energy start-up Pavegen broke its crowd-fiunding target and was able to fund expansion and product development. Pavegen’s latest development in its renewable energy-generating technology (announced on May 11, 2016) is a triangular tile, the V3, said to be far more efficient than the company’s previous models, generating 5 watts per step. It… Continue reading →
A night on the kinetic tiles helps power African football pitch
Tiles that generate electricity when players step on them are providing some of the energy to floodlight a football pitch in Nigeria. The rest of the power comes from solar panels. The facility, at the Federal College of Education in Lagos, is described as Africa’s first human and solar powered football pitch. Around 90 under-pitch… Continue reading →
Pavegen’s footstep energy advance “faster than solar”
The advances made in the pioneering technology of footstep energy has been much more rapid than the progress in solar power when it was starting up, according to the CEO of Pavegen, a UK company at the leading edge of the (kinetic harvesting) business. (Another story by me on Pavegen – here.) Laurence Kemball-Cook,… Continue reading →