{"id":328852,"date":"2026-07-03T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328852\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:45:09","slug":"solar-streetlight-company-helping-keep-the-power-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328852\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar streetlight company helping keep the power on"},"content":{"rendered":"

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa-based company is making sure the lights stay on even in the aftermath of a storm.<\/p>\n

Streetleaf is harnessing solar power to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Liam Ryan is the CEO of the company, having started as a small grassroots program just a few years ago. Now, in just a few years, his company has expanded from Tampa to other areas throughout the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese lights will stay safely lit, even when the power\u2019s out. We\u2019ve just seen the need throughout Pasco,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cWe have 13,000 streetlights deployed, 5,000 of those are in Pasco County.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lights are completely solar-powered and run on their own batteries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re completely off-grid, which means they\u2019re not connected to the utility grid. There\u2019s no wires underneath the ground. They are 100% solar-powered. That solar panel powers the battery and that battery is what turns the light on at night,\u201d said Ryan.<\/p>\n

The battery, Ryan said, is equipped with a multi-day backup. Meaning if there\u2019s none to hardly any sunshine the lights will stay on for three to five days.<\/p>\n

During Hurricane Ian, the streetlights kept a neighborhood lit for 10 days while residents were without power.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat impressed us as we moved here in Angeline is they are automatic when you drive by under them,\u201d said Zahra Tayarani, a resident in Angeline and a teacher at Angeline Country Day School<\/a>. \u201cSo they turn on and they are always on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angeline is another neighborhood with Streetleaf\u2019s streetlights. Tayarani said having a light source disconnected from the main power grid provides peace of mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really important for a community that knows that we are living in a safe area and that we know that if something happens during a hurricane, at least we have somewhere to kind of get shelter. That somebody can see us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A feeling of being seen during a time of vulnerability. And more communities will feel the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re actually in 21 other counties within the state of Florida and ten other states in the United States,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cWe\u2019re just seeing that need in other parts of the country as we grow and expand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pasadena Ridge in Dade City is installing more than 100 of these solar streetlights, bringing Pasco County\u2019s total to more than 5,400 solar lights, which is a U.S. record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PASCO COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa-based company is making sure the lights stay on even in the aftermath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2031,274,558,4069,2200,115,1338,12166,87368,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-328852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-local-business","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-calvin-lewis","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-pasco-county","tag-storm-season","tag-storm-season-resources","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}