Vijayawada station becomes Indian Railways’ first station to be covered with 130 kWp solar panels; details

Vijayawada station turned the primary railway station within the nation to be lined with 130 kWp photo voltaic panels.

Massive eco-friendly achievement! Indian Railways’ Vijayawada station within the state of Andhra Pradesh turned the primary railway station within the nation to be lined with 130 kWp photo voltaic panels. In keeping with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, now 18 per cent of the full energy consumption of the railway station might be from this photo voltaic vitality. The environment-friendly transfer will lead to annual financial savings of over Rs 8 lakh, and it’ll additionally scale back carbon emissions, the minister additional stated. Vijayawada Divisional Railway Supervisor P. Srinivas had just about commissioned the 65 kWp building-integrated photovoltaics photo voltaic cowl. The brand new addition takes the photo voltaic photovoltaic cover-over platform capability of the Vijayawada railway station to 130 kWp. The photo voltaic roof price an quantity of Rs 62 lakh to arrange, in accordance with reviews.

आंध्र प्रदेश का विजयवाड़ा स्टेशन बना 130 kWp सोलर पैनल से ढका देश का पहला स्टेशन।

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अब स्टेशन की कुल बिजली खपत में से 18% बिजली इसी सौर ऊर्जा से मिलेगी। इससे वार्षिक 8 लाख रुपये की बचत होगी, व कॉर्बन उत्सर्जन में भी कमी आयेगी।

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— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) July 6, 2021

The nationwide transporter plans to be a Internet Zero Carbon Emitter by the yr 2030. Earlier, Indian Railways had stated that for assembly its traction energy requirement, it plans to arrange photo voltaic vegetation on unused vacant railway land. Indian Railways plans to put in 20 GW land based mostly photo voltaic vegetation. With the intention to additional proliferate these pilot initiatives, the nationwide transporter has initially deliberate to arrange 3 GWp of land based mostly photo voltaic vegetation in three phases.

Additional, Indian Railways additionally eyes to take up a storage based mostly photo voltaic undertaking. In keeping with railways, this undertaking is taken as much as handle peak demand administration and photo voltaic peak technology administration. Apart from, a pilot undertaking to obtain renewable energy within the around the clock mode to the tune of 150 MW is being deliberate by the nationwide transporter as properly.

In the meantime, Indian Railways has additionally accomplished 100 per cent LED substitute in all railway stations, railway installations and buildings throughout the nation. Additionally, all residential quarters of Indian Railways have been transformed to LED lighting.