In Switzerland, the world’s first removable solar power plant installed along a railway is now in operation. Just over a year after the pilot project began, its founder reports positive results. This Swiss innovation is attracting interest in Italy, France, and Asia. “We have achieved our objectives, both in terms of railway safety and electricity production,” Joseph Scuderi, founder of the start-up Sun-Ways, told Swissinfo. More than 11,000 trains have circulated over the solar panels, and the installation has proven to be “perfectly stable and safe during their passage,” he said. In April 2025, Sun-Ways installed solar modules on a 100-metre stretch of railway in Buttes, a village in canton Neuchâtel in western Switzerland. The photovoltaic cells are placed between the rails, on the sleepers. The special feature is that they can be easily removed for maintenance of the railway infrastructure. This is the first installation of its kind in the world. >> Solar panels between the …