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17th October 2013

By: Creamer Media Reporter

  

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In a move to reduce energy consumption and make public transport ‘greener’, the Polish city of Lublin has installed flexible thin film solar cells from Midsummer on the roofs of its municipal buses. Midsummer www.midsummer.se is a leading supplier of production lines for cost effective manufacturing of flexible thin film CIGS solar cells. The Municipal Transport Company (MPK) in Lublin has installed photovoltaic thin film CIGS solar panels on its buses' roofs. The solar panels turn solar energy into electric energy and are used to load the buses’ batteries. This will decrease the buses' alternators load, leading to lower fuel consumption and bringing both economic and ecological profits. Potential savings are estimated at up to 8,000 zloty (1,900 euro) per bus per year. The system’s payback period is estimated at a mere two years, taking into consideration only the fuel consumption reduction and not the overall environmental benefits. After two years, the solar energy solution will create compound surpluses for MPK for the remainder of the panels’ life span that will outlast the lifetime of the bus.The Lublin solar bus project will initially run for two years, after which it will be evaluated. The first solar bus is already in operation.

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