Italy could become the next country to build solar railway tracks after Switzerland's successful trial
- Switzerland has just marked a full year of running trains directly over the world's first solar power plant built into an active railway line, and the results have been promising enough that Italy could become the next country to try the same idea.
- The project, developed by the Swiss start up Sun-Ways, involves 48 specially designed solar panels fitted between the sleepers of a hundred metre stretch of track in the village of Buttes, in the canton of Neuchatel.
- Trains have continued running over the panels exactly as before, with no disruption to services and no incidents of glare distracting
Unverified
- Switzerland has just marked a full year of running trains directly over the world's first solar power plant built into an active railway line, and the results have been promising enough that Italy could become the next country to try the same idea.
- The project, developed by the Swiss start up Sun-Ways, involves 48 specially designed solar panels fitted between the sleepers of a hundred metre stretch of track in the village of Buttes, in the canton of Neuchatel.
- Trains have continued running over the panels exactly as before, with no disruption to services and no incidents of glare distracting
Sources: Times of India