Is It a Solar Farm or Railway? In a Swiss Village, It’s Both.
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A pilot program that consists of installing solar panels between train tracks has been so successful that the idea is spreading to Italy, France and Korea
A railway line in the west of Switzerland now transports two types of traffic: passengers over and sunlight below. On a 100 metre section of railway, near the village of Buttes, 48 solar panels are located between the tracks — low enough for trains to pass over and can be removed when the road is needed. The installation, created by the Swiss startup Sun-Ways, is small: its 18 kilowatts of power give about 16,000 kilowatts per year — more or les…
A pilot project that installed solar panels between the tracks of a railway proved successful enough for the initiative to be expanding to Italy, France and South Korea The post Is it a solar plant or a railway? In a Swiss city, they are the two things appeared first on InfoMoney.
More than 4,800 kilometres of railways cross the Swiss countryside, connecting Alpine towns with large cities such as Zurich and Geneva. It is the densest railway network in Europe. Now, an emerging company and a local railway operator have found a way to use that land to generate clean electricity: to install solar panels between the tracks. Since last April, under the shadow of a steep peak in the village of Buttes, the Sun-Ways company starte…
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