Brightfield is Solar Driven. We’ve proven the viability of driving on solar generated electricity through deployment of our Brightfield Charging Stations. Our Brightfields solve issues that plague American transportation: 1) provide us a clean and renewable alternative to polluting and finite fossil fuel; 2) create quality local jobs and sustainable economic development; 3) generate domestic, secure and cost-stable fuel; 4) build more durable and resilient communities.
Here in western North Carolina our electricity comes mostly from coal strip mined in Virginia and West Virginia through the process known as mountain top removal. In fact, North Carolina leads the nation in mountain top removal coal use. Switching from oil to coal for our transportation sector provides a net environmental gain because the electric motor is much more efficient that the internal combustion engine. But the mining and burning of coal perpetuates the environmentally destructive consequences of burning any fossil fuel namely air pollution, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. There’s no way around the fact that coal fired electricity will play a major role in the EV transition, but Brightfield is proving that by incorporating solar power generation from the onset, we can phase in the solar capacity needed to run the growing regional fleet of EVs to reduce the pressure on existing coal fired power plants and eliminate the need to build new ones.
As far as the revenue generation goes, The solar power generated by Brightfields is bundled and sold on the energy markets as Renewable Energy Credits (REC). The RECs are purchased by individuals and companies looking to stimulate renewable power generation and/or offset their own non-renewable electricity use. In North Carolina the RECs are purchased by NC Green Power. The revenue from the sale of RECs covers Brightfield™ operations and maintenance costs and provides cash flow to Brightfield. This is particularly valuable while we wait for the EVs the Brightfields will serve to arrive. With integrated solar power generation, the Brightfield Charging Station is productive from day one every moment the sun is shining.
That abundant local sunshine is harvested by the Brightfield’s solar array and put on the grid to power your car. Local fuel is secure fuel. As it stands now, our gas is mostly exported, more and more from Canadian tar sands, which in itself is a very oil dependent form of extraction. And when we buy that oil as gasoline at the pump, only a few cents per gallon stays in the local economy. The rest leaves immediately to be deposited in far away corporate and foreign nation bank accounts. But when we harvest sunshine and send it onto the grid and then draw off the grid to fuel our EVs, more of our fuel dollars stay local where they can serve the local economy.
Brightfield is Solar Driven. We’ve proven the viability of driving on solar generated electricity through deployment of our Brightfield Charging Stations. Our Brightfields solve issues that plague American transportation: 1) provide us a clean and renewable alternative to polluting and finite fossil fuel; 2) create quality local jobs and sustainable economic development; 3) generate domestic, secure and cost-stable fuel; 4) build more durable and resilient communities.
Here in western North Carolina our electricity comes mostly from coal strip mined in Virginia and West Virginia through the process known as mountain top removal. In fact, North Carolina leads the nation in mountain top removal coal use. Switching from oil to coal for our transportation sector provides a net environmental gain because the electric motor is much more efficient that the internal combustion engine. But the mining and burning of coal perpetuates the environmentally destructive consequences of burning any fossil fuel namely air pollution, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. There’s no way around the fact that coal fired electricity will play a major role in the EV transition, but Brightfield is proving that by incorporating solar power generation from the onset, we can phase in the solar capacity needed to run the growing regional fleet of EVs to reduce the pressure on existing coal fired power plants and eliminate the need to build new ones.
As far as the revenue generation goes, The solar power generated by Brightfields is bundled and sold on the energy markets as Renewable Energy Credits (REC). The RECs are purchased by individuals and companies looking to stimulate renewable power generation and/or offset their own non-renewable electricity use. In North Carolina the RECs are purchased by NC Green Power. The revenue from the sale of RECs covers Brightfield™ operations and maintenance costs and provides cash flow to Brightfield. This is particularly valuable while we wait for the EVs the Brightfields will serve to arrive. With integrated solar power generation, the Brightfield Charging Station is productive from day one every moment the sun is shining.
That abundant local sunshine is harvested by the Brightfield’s solar array and put on the grid to power your car. Local fuel is secure fuel. As it stands now, our gas is mostly exported, more and more from Canadian tar sands, which in itself is a very oil dependent form of extraction. And when we buy that oil as gasoline at the pump, only a few cents per gallon stays in the local economy. The rest leaves immediately to be deposited in far away corporate and foreign nation bank accounts. But when we harvest sunshine and send it onto the grid and then draw off the grid to fuel our EVs, more of our fuel dollars stay local where they can serve the local economy.