11.10.2024
Artikel Nummer: 51047
Switzerland: first rail tracks to get solar panels
The first solar panels designed to produce electricity from solar energy are about to be laid between the tracks at Buttes station in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The federal office of transport (FOT) recently approved a pilot project to this effect.
The photovoltaic panels will be installed manually or by using a special machine in the middle of the tracks. They were developed by Sun-Ways, a solar energy specialist. The solar power plant is due to be set up along 100 m of track in spring 2025.
According to Sun-Ways, pilot projects similar to the one in Buttes are already being discussed in the Vaud municipality of Aigle as well as in France, Spain, Romania and South Korea. (ben)