Power up: St. Pete Pier set to wow visitors with unique canopies

The eye-catching, covered approach to the Sunshine City's new showpiece features a complex solar energy array.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. September 6, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Bill Johnson, president and founder of Brilliant Harvest, at the St. Pete Pier's solar-powered canopy walkway.
Mark Wemple. Bill Johnson, president and founder of Brilliant Harvest, at the St. Pete Pier's solar-powered canopy walkway.
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When the new St. Pete Pier opens next year, one of the first things visitors will experience is a long pathway lined with vendor stalls and covered by a pair of eye-catching steel canopies that are each topped with 221 solar panels. Those panels are provided and installed by Sarasota-based Brilliant Harvest.

 

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