☀️⚡️ Everyone in Switzerland agrees we need more solar. But often, there's disagreement about where to put the panels without impacting the landscapes too much.

🛤️ Looking back, this one is a no-brainer, why not lay them down between train rails: there's already a strong connection to the grid, and it's infrastructure that's already ‘built’.

🇨🇭 First segment of the tracks got inaugurated today in canton Neuchâtel.

https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/neuchatel/2025/article/la-premiere-centrale-solaire-sur-rails-a-ete-inauguree-dans-le-canton-de-neuchatel-28863275.html
Supplier: https://www.sun-ways.ch

YYC Solar House stats for 2024/12/20
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Generated 16.11 kWh from 🌞
🏡 used 29.8 kWh
Imported 21.98 kWh @ $0.105/kWh = $2.31
Exported 8.29 kWh @ $0.105/kWh = $0.87

The solar rush

A planet-wide solar boom has been beating expectations at every turn. And it’s only just the beginning.

“We found that, in fact, 20 per cent of the global south has already leapfrogged what’s going on in the global north,” he says.

“The folks in Pakistan or Namibia or Bangladesh or Uruguay or Chile or Vietnam, they too want local cheap energy, and they too can buy cheap stuff from China and harness the sun.

“Why wouldn’t they?”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/survey-of-the-worlds-solar-shows-global-boom/104006096