riding sunbeams

Riding Sunbeams’ executive director Ollie Pendered talked to Solar Power Portal about the importance of securing government funding and how community benefits and education are “core” to the organisation’s business strategy.

The 3.75MW Cuckmere Community Solar Farm is to directly power the Eastbourne-London mainline railway in a world-first project.

The solar powered rail network company Riding Sunbeams has gained its first ever commercial funding from Thrive Renewables and Friends Provident Foundation.

The Riding Sunbeams project has won a further £2.5 million of funding to develop solar power for railways.

Greentech start-up Riding Sunbeams has won £400,000 of innovation funding from the Department for Transport and InnovateUK’s First Of A Kind 2020 programme for a solar rail demonstrator.