They began pursuing the idea of using highway noise barriers, attaching a metal grid to the sides of the walls and mounting solar panels at an angle on this framework. They soon hit upon a vision of building solar projects on and around transportation structures. Ko-Solar began when Siddiqui and entrepreneur Koray Kotan met at a Boston-area networking event and began discussing their mutual interest in green technology. “Why don’t we just adapt what we already have and retrofit those existing structures? Most states have sound barriers.” “If this is successful, it opens the door to many more sites,” said Mohammed Siddiqui, a partner in Ko-Solar, the company developing the project with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The pilot project, which could begin construction as early as this spring, will test an approach to solar installation that supporters say could have a broad reach across the state and country. A half-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in suburban Boston may soon be home to the country’s first solar panels mounted on highway sound barriers.
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