Solar panels go into service near North Pole
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Solar panels go into service near North Pole

The Hindu  

Norway has installed solar panels in its Svalbard archipelago, a region plunged in round-the-clock darkness all winter, in a pilot project that could help remote Arctic communities transition to green energy. Neatly lined up in six rows in a field, 360 solar panels will on Thursday begin providing electricity to an old shipping radio station, Isfjord Radio, now converted into a base camp for tourists. "It's what we believe to be the world's northernmost ground-mounted PV system," Mons Ole Sellevold, renewable energies technical adviser at state-owned energy group Store Norske, told AFP. The solar panels also benefit from the "albedo" effect, the reflective power of snow and ice, as well as low temperatures that improve their efficiency.

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