Parking lots may be suburban biosphere’s traditional wasteland, but these asphalt acres can still be put to use for environmental and energy sufficiency causes. After a series of environment-friendly ventures the search giant Google is joining hands with other companies in planting solar panels between the rows of cars parked in the Google’s Mountain View, California.

The panels, while providing a little shade to the parked cars, will be generating clean power enough to power about 1,000 homes! The Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters’ parking lot will be getting a 1.6-megawatt solar system.

The project will be built by Energy Innovations and is scheduled to be completed by spring. Company spokesman Steve Chadima said,

It was a design challenge. What you want is a gigantic, flat Wal-Mart roof; what we had was a campus with 11 buildings, interesting architecture and challenging angles.