Media Coverage & Press Releases: 2006
Wired Magazine
Google Plants Solar Trees
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San Diego Metropolitan Magazine
Bob Noble Taps Into Solar’s New Roots
His ‘shady’ concept for Kyocera’s carports garnered Bob Noble’s Envision several awards for environmentally friendly design. (photo/alandeckerphoto.com)
With energy trees that shade cars while powering the grid, his Envision partnership
with Kyocera sees opportunity in parking lots everywhere
Tucker Sadler Architects and Kyocera are partnering to make parking cars under trees an energizing, profitable experience — because these groves will be gathering the sun and converting it to electricity. The alliance between the distinguished full-service architecture firm and the forward-thinking technology is being finalized this month as the companies launch Envision, headed by Bob Noble, to get the trees to the pavement.
“The business model is to provide turn-key, single-point-of-contact services to the property owners,” says Noble, Envision’s CEO and largest shareholder. “There are very few companies that have the capability of doing all of that, and Envision Solar is the only company that we can find worldwide whose primary business is this turnkey solution.”
