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Description

Solmove creates smart solar streets, building road surface that generates electricity from sunlight,
absorbs noise, breaks down nitrogen oxides, defrosts ice in winter, and provides valuable data and
supplies electric vehicles with electricity.

The founder of Solmove, Donald Müller-Judex, realized the luck of rooftops to install solar panels and
decided to implement the solar panels idea, adapting it, for its installation to roads. The roads will
generate energy and can recollect data information.

Solmove was created in alliance with with two Fraunhofer Institutes, two universities and other experts.
The solar street has been developed as a multifunctional “solar carpet” containing photovoltaic cells,
LEDs and sensors. The system is electrically connected and can then be glued to existing surfaces such
as roads and paths. The road is turned into a power network.

The 3S (Smart Solar Street) platform will be used to connect utilities, charging infrastructure operators,
big data applications, traffic control, fleet management, car park owners and payment service
providers, among others.

Major achievements

The main benefits and achievements of the Solmove Company are the creation in an efficient and
environmentally friendly manner to generate and obtain electricity, by considering and taking
advantage of the existence or roads.

Main benefits:

- Clean electricity: Generation of clean and renewable source energy reduces costs for municipalities,
and landowners, and supply electric cars.

- Cost-efficient: Solar street roads in a life cycle of around 25 years a solar street can earn a plus of up to
€200 per square meter meanwhile conventional once cost money.

- Nature-friendly: Solar roads do not occupy addition large natural areas, but the solar roads are laid on
already existing surfaces.