Abandon diesel British railway trial first, powered by solar energy

A complete by solar energy power supply line, already on August 23 aldershot in southern city officially launched in the UK.

at the side of the railway track, you will see that about 100 pieces of solar panels, which will provide a total of 30 kw of power, is responsible for the local wessex ( Wessex） Line all the signal and lighting.

the solar rail network plan by the British rail network companies, imperial college, London, and in environmental charity launched two years ago, is now in the first round of tests, so the scale is relatively small, but the ultimate goal is to make the national railway power system by solar energy supply completely, even no use diesel locomotive.

, the researchers said the program not only can reduce the cost of electricity transmission, but also can reduce the loss of power grid transmission caused by the current, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

the UK rail network company's director of line Stewart & middot; Keith terry g ( 斯图尔特Kistruck) To accept an interview with the guardian, hope that through this demonstration project, provide the public with more environmentally friendly and friendly railway line.

plan, head of the Leo & middot; Murray ( Leo Murray） Said, want to plan to promote to the whole country and other countries, notably South America, India and other regions that have abundant sunshine resources. After all, compared with the use of coal power generation, embracing new energy may be a better choice.

the Indian railways now for the first assembly of solar panels mixed diesel train, these panels are mainly for car fan, electric light, such as the system to provide the power, to reduce the burden of diesel generators.

but solar output power depends on the area of light, and panels on the roof will be the car forward direction, the influence of shadow and trees and buildings.

so, the practice is to place the solar panels on both sides of the rail network, through special transformer substation and storage facilities to train power, rather than directly installed on the train.

in the future, India is also planning to build capacity of up to 30 gw of solar power plant, and the power for the use of the railway system, and in 10 years to build the world's first 100% of green environmental protection of railway network.