Engineers from Imperial College London proposed to place solar panels along the tracks and feeding the resulting electricity directly to the propulsion system of trains, bypassing the grid. According to them, this helps to avoid peak loads on the network and not to use the reserves of the regions where there is a shortage of electricity.
Professor Tim green, one of the authors of the project, explained that in the UK there are many places to access the grid is quite difficult, but you can quickly and easily position the solar panels, thereby relieving the substation small towns, struggling with the accumulation of excess electricity. If feeding the produced solar electricity directly to the train, this will avoid electricity shortages on the ground, feeding on high-speed trains produced solar energy.
Solar panels can produce enough for Railways rural areas, the amount of electricity. In addition, the substation outside the city located along the railway lines at intervals of about three kilometers. Next to them is very convenient to install solar panels.
Now engineers understand some of the subtleties and issues inevitably arise, but I hope that they will be able to help the company’s specialists, engaged in the service of power lines on the Railways of the country. In addition, the project sparked keen interest in “green” that also offered their help.
It is expected that the first electric train, fed by solar panels produced electricity, will be launched before the end of 2018.
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In the UK trains will run on solar energy
Vyacheslav Larionov