Innovation in solar energy

Being firmly committed to the development of renewable energies, Romande Energie and the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) founded a partnership bearing on the construction of an original solar power station, since it will allow each one to work in favour of the environment.

The biggest solar park in Switzerland.
For an amount estimated to be almost 15 million francs, this solar park is entirely managed and paid by Romande Energie. Situated on the roofs of the EPFL, with a surface of 20.000 m², the park will be put in function progressively so as to furnish, eventually, more than 2 million kilowatt-hours per year.

A strong affinity partnership between a private company and scientific research.
Part of the solar station is at the disposal of the many laboratories of the EPFL doing work in this domain (architectural integration of panels, technologies of coloured solar panels with a thin layer or with nanocomposites, storage and distribution of energy). This part of the photovoltaic park functions as a true research laboratory, to support the rapid development of these technologies. Moreover, the presence of this power station in an academic establishment reinforces the training of future engineers as concerns the possibilities of renewable energies, favours their contact with companies and encourages their field experience.

A model of partnership implying citizens, companies and public communities.
This technical and scientific project is coupled with an original idea. In fact, citizens, companies and public communities all over Switzerland are invited to become partners of this innovative project. By renting a photovoltaic surface, they become co-producers of solar electricity. As of today, it is possible on the website of the project to choose the location of its solar surface on the roof of the EPFL.
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