Riding Sunbeams is a world leading project to connect solar panels directly to electrified rail routes to power trains.
Direct supply of solar power to rail traction systems has never been done before. But it has huge potential to reduce costs and clean up the energy used by metros, trams and railways in the UK and around the world.
After extensive feasibility work and research, we have connected our first pilot solar array to the railway at our demonstrator site outside Aldershot station in the UK.
Next we’ll go bigger, offering shares in new solar farms to communities and commuters, so that local people will own and benefit from the clean energy powering their trains.