WATCH: Turning roads into clean power plants

The patented Road Energy Production System (REPS) transforms existing road surfaces into clean power plants, capturing the lost energy from vehicles and turning it into usable, carbon-neutral power.

Designed to support global electrification efforts, the technology can feed renewable electricity directly into the grid or power on-site operations, boosting efficiency without requiring additional land.

Port market

Ports, facing mounting pressure to decarbonise, are among the most promising applications for the road energy production system.

Heavy vehicle masses and frequent braking at intersections, terminal entrances, curves and traffic lights create significant untapped energy. By installing roughly 300 REPS units across strategic points in port infrastructure, operators could generate 5–10% of their total energy demand while cutting CO2 emissions from port traffic by 5–12%.

REPS aims to leverage these high-traffic areas to deliver both economic and environmental gains.

In a major milestone for the technology, REPS unveiled the world’s first operational road power plant during a live demonstration at the Port of Hamburg.

The 12-metre system successfully showcased how real-time vehicular movement can be converted into clean electricity under normal port operations.

It was an event which brought together German television presenter, Panagiota Petridou as moderator, with speeches and keynotes from Justin Karnbach (CEO of HCS), Jens Meier (CEO of Hamburg Port Authority & President of IAPH) and Elisabeth Zehentner (Austrian State Secretary for Economy, Energy and Tourism).

REPS founder and CEO Alfons Huber lead the live demonstration.