Solar Streetlights Are Resilience Infrastructure, Not Just Cheap Power

Solar Streetlights Are Resilience Infrastructure, Not Just Cheap Power

May 13, 2026 · 35 min · Season 1 · Episode 275

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The episode discusses the importance of solar streetlights in enhancing resilience and reducing infrastructure costs amidst energy transitions.

Get in touch - leave me a message Streetlights sound boring. Until the grid fails and they’re the only lights left on. In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by Liam Ryan, CEO of Streetleaf, a climate tech company rethinking one of the most overlooked pieces of public infrastructure: the streetlight. And yes, I know. Streetlights. Hardly the sexiest corner of the energy transition. But this conversation quickly becomes about something much bigger: resilience, decarbonisation, public...

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