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Trains in Switzerland Are Now Running Over Solar Panels in a First-of-Its-Kind Test
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Don't forget about the inverters.
Low voltage (such as the output from a solar panel) suffers badly from losses over distance. Centralised solar makes up for this by having a large amount of panels close to a central inverter. There is going to be a distance tipping point of cost vs losses, if this is short and you need a lot of inverters, that's going to become a major expense.