Swiss startup Sun-ways is planning to build a 18 kW pilot PV system between the racks of a 100m linear section of a railway line in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport (FOT) has given a permit to the country’s first removable solar power plant to be deployed on a railway line.
The project is being developed by Swiss startup Sun-ways, which plans to begin deploying the system next year, on a 100-m linear section of the 221 railway operated by transN, the public transport company of the canton of Neuchâtel.
The pilot system will rely on 48 panels with each an output of 380 W and their combined capacity will be 18 kW. The project will be built at a cost of €621,800 ($685,920) and will inject power into the local grid.