Applications for Evergreen's solar cells and systems include highway call boxes, microwave stations, street and billboard lighting and off-grid rural electrification.
The young inventor envisages PaveGen systems being used to power off-grid appliances such as public lighting, illuminated street maps and advertising, and to be installed in areas of dense human traffic such as city centers, underground stations and school corridors.
At an Albert Heijn pilot store in Harlem, customers enter a circular marketplace with soft focused lighting, rather than the neon-lit, grid-like labyrinth of most supermarkets.