Fix The News: Solar Panels on Swiss Dam Very Productive in Winter

Planning ahead (it’s not always summer) Switzerland has bolted 5,000 solar panels to an Alpine dam, where they work best in winter. The AlpinSolar plant on the Muttsee dam, about an hour outside Zurich, sits at 2,500m, way above the treeline, where thin air and snow-glare lift output. It generates roughly half its power in the coldest half of the year, around three times what a lowland solar farm manages, and at exactly the time of year that the rest of the country runs short. Read ON.