Riding Sunbeams wins ₤ 2.5 m from federal government's Getting Building Fund

• The Riding Sunbeams project has won a more ₤ 2.5 numerous moneying to create solar energy for railways.

As part of the federal government's recently revealed ₤ 900 million Getting Building Fund, the South East Local Enterprise Partnerships (SELEP) won ₤ 85 million. This is being divided in between 34 projects that will develop 9,167 brand-new jobs and also guard a further 3,341.

This consists of greentech start-up Riding Sunbeams's collective project along with Network Rail that is aiming to develop and also supply clean energy from solar farms to rail networks. It will certainly be the first to create a straight link between renewable energy generation and also amazed rail networks.

SELEP chair, Christian Brodie, said he was "delighted" that the federal government had actually acknowledged the "excellent projects as well as prospective" in the south east, as well as just how they could drive ahead the economic situation.

" These projects have actually been very carefully chosen to target those areas as well as industries particularly at risk to COVID-19 as well as those that can proceed, at speed, to sustain financial healing. The South East LEP has a proven performance history of delivering successful projects and has been working actually closely with our cities to recognize what our businesses need as well as where financial investment will have substantial effect.

" We truly think that the South East will certainly assist lead the country out of the situation and also right into recovery. The Getting Building Fund provides the following phase of monetary stimulus to reboot our economic climate."

Riding Sunbeams is developed of a consortium, including Turbo Power Systems, Ricardo Power & Environment and also rail companies Network Rail, Angel Trains and also the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and also Education.

In 2019, it celebrated a 'initial of its kind' demonstrator project, which saw a solar-powered railway, made up of a 30kW solar examination device of around 100 photovoltaic panels, turned on in Aldershot.

Riding Sunbeams won ₤ 400,000 of innovation funding from the Department for Transport and Innovate UK's First Of A Kind 2020 program in June 2020 to remain to develop the project.

Together With Riding Sunbeams, a number of various other power projects got financing from the Getting Building Fund, consisting of the UK's first large range energy EV logistics center, the Energy Systems Accelerator Pilot and the Bedford Green Energy Innovation Park.