In the US, Parallel Systems is also working on electrifying individual freight wagons so that they can move independently ...

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, ...

SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The latest container-based solar-plus-storage plant developed by AREP, an SNCF ...

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy delivered the keynote address at the launch of PRASA’s Renewable Energy Project, Train Set ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) says PV systems within 2 km of Germany’s railway substations could generate more than four times the network’s annual power demand.

The 300 train sets were produced by Gibela Rail Transport Consortium at its cutting-edge manufacturing plant in Nigel, ...

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has opened an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tender for solar installations at its sites across the country. The deadline for ...

Indian Railways has begun experimenting with solar panels on railway tracks, in a first for the country. The initiative was launched at Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) in Varanasi, where a 70-metre ...

Left: Dr. Eng. Joseph Oketch, Director, Electricity and Renewable Energy (EPRA) , Prof. Da Silva, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Strathmore University and Faisal Ghani, Founder of SolarisKit during the ...