Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has announced that it will install solar panels between railway tracks near a railway station as part of a pilot project.
If this pilot project proves successful, similar systems will be installed on other railway lines in the Cantons.
The panels developed by the Swiss company can be rolled like carpets between the tracks by a specially modified train. This way, large distances can be covered with solar panels in a short time.
The electricity generated by the solar panels could initially be used by households near the railway. In the future, the energy will be used to power electric trains. Sun-Ways representatives claim that 5,000 km of railway track covered with solar panels generates enough energy for 750,000 households each year.
Sun-Ways’ 2023 target
Sun-Ways is currently made up of a small team of members with complementary skills. As of 2021, the company’s employees are working hard to overcome engineering challenges and manufacture the already patented solar panel system, and the installation of the pilot project has become the main goal for this year.
“Our solution is but a stepping stone to the global environmental and energy challenge. We could not continue to produce electricity as we are doing now. In our view, the solar energy market is only at the beginning of its full potential, and its use can only grow in the years to come,” say the co-founders of the Swiss company that wants to install solar panels between railway tracks, Joseph Scuderi and Baptiste Danichert, in a message posted on their official website.
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