ABOUT US
Ko-Solar is the leader in full-service transportation-based solar energy systems providing custom design, financing, installation, and monitoring to various private and government entities for highways, railways, bridges, parking areas, ports, and transportation facilities. Ko-Solar brings innovative, smart, clean transportation-based solar technology solutions such as solar sound barriers, canopies, rooftops, retaining walls, etc. Furthermore, Ko-Solar combines solar technology and highway/rail noise barrier structures, harnessing solar energy, reducing noise pollution and carbon from the atmosphere while generating funds for local and state agencies. Ko-Solar is advancing the “First” highway solar sound barrier in the Western Hemisphere. Ko-Solar’s visually pleasing solar noise (sound) barrier systems are designed for simplicity, scalability, enhancing reliability and applicability at sites. Ko-Solar examines a wide array of highway/railway features, barrier construction materials and methods, barrier heights, transportation safety, environmental, technical, social and economic factors as well as needs and requirements of the community in detail for each project. Let Ko-Solar help you and your organization with innovative solar applications in transportation.
WHAT WE DO






- Highway/Railway Solar Sound Barriers
- Highway/Railway Solar Walls
- Bridge/Carpark solar energy system designs
- Highway/Railway/Parking Solar Canopies & Retaining Walls
- Innovative Transportation-Based Solar Applications
- Solar Noise Barriers with or without sound/noise attenuation capabilities
- Propriety Criteria and Studies in highway/railway concepts
- Rooftop Solar for Transportation and other buildings
- Solar Energy
- Abutters approval
- Environmental and Community Relations
- Land Use
- Local government buy-in
- Stakeholder buy-in
- Acoustics Modeling
- Acoustics/Sound/Noise Analysis
- Client Management
- Designs (future and existing)
- Environmental/Social Impact and Assessment
- Feasibility Analyses
- Field Services
- Geotechnical Engineering
- GIS Analysis
- Interagency Coordination
- Operation, Maintenance, and Management
- Pilot Studies
- Project Management
- Public Relations
- Relationship Management with private and local/state/federal government stakeholders
- Right of Way
- Structural Engineering
- Technical Review
- Transportation Impact Assessment
- Transportation planning
- Wind Evaluations
- Work Zone inspections
- Zoning compliance
BENEFITS
Community
Community solar opportunities
Enhance public opinion
Generation of a new type of businesses (e.g., operators, installers, bankers, etc.)
New employment opportunities
Environmental
Clean, renewable power from the sun
Minimum soils/site/land disturbance
No additional land use requirements
Sound/Noise pollution reduction/prevention
Financial
No cost and potential revenue generation for local, federal and state agencies
Long-term, predictable and favorable electricity rate schedule
Private capital investment opportunities
Reduction in utility expenses
Sustainability
Energy diversity and reliability
Improved sustainability metrics
Net increase in the use of solar energy
Reduction of carbon footprint
PROJECTS IN DISCUSSION
NEWSROOM
PRESS RELEASES
INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE
Deal signed for solar noise barrier, The Construction Index, London, United Kingdom
La barriere antirumore diventano pannelli solari: l’idea che arova dagli USA, Everyeye Auto, Italy
Solar noise barrier along highway in Massachusetts, PV Magazine Internationa, New York, New York
Solaranlagen auf Lärmschutzwänden: USA testen den Highway-Strom, Stern, Germany
Prva američka solarna zvučna barijera na autoputu napajat će 100 kuća, Klix, Bosnia
Tường chắn âm gắn pin mặt trời đầu tiên ở Mỹ, VNExpress, Vietnam
US To Trial Its First-Ever Highway Sound Barriers That Absorb Solar Energy, DesignTaxi, Singapore
MEDIA COVERAGE
Massachusetts to install solar noise barrier along highway, PV Magazine, Providence, Rhode Island
Solar panels on a highway? Here’s how many homes it could power – Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas
MassDOT OKs plan to outfit noise barrier with solar panels, Boston.com, Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts to install solar noise barrier along highway, PV Magazine
Lexington To Be 1st In US To Hang Solar Panels on Noise Barriers, Patch, Lexington, Massachusetts