The idea struck Joseph Scuderi one day in 2020 while he was waiting for a train in Renens, west of Lausanne. Why not do something with the unused space between railroad tracks?
Five years later, Scuderi and his start-up Sun-Ways have placed 100 metres of solar panels on tracks in Buttes, a small village in canton Neuchâtel in western Switzerland.
“We installed solar panels as we would on the roof of a house,” Scuderi says at the unveiling of the project on April 24. With steady rain falling, it wasn’t an ideal day for inaugurating a solar power plant, but Scuderi was happy. Getting this far, he says, “has been a miracle”.
