South Western Railway is one of the Indian Railways zones which has taken large strides aimed on the conservation of vitality. The SWR zone, to this point, has put in 4656.60 KWp Solar panels at Service buildings and main railway stations. SWR has supplied photo voltaic panels at 120 stations rooftop in addition to seven service buildings. Besides, Solar Rooftop vegetation have additionally been supplied to each the Workshops within the zone and each the Sheds, Krishnarajapuram Diesel Shed and Hubballi EMD Shed. Additionally, as many as 295 Level Crossing gates have been supplied with Solar Panels. During the final monetary yr, the photo voltaic electrical energy technology was 46.11 lakh models within the SWR zone leading to saving in electrical energy payments to the tune of Rs 1.96 crores.
It is estimated that roughly 70 per cent of the electrical energy requirement of SSS Hubballi railway station throughout fiscal 2021-22 (Total consumption of vitality – 4.8 Lakh Units) was met by way of photo voltaic vitality. According to SWR, 83 per cent of the vitality requirement of Hubballi workshop is being met from photo voltaic vitality and 60 per cent of the vitality requirement of Hubballi EMD shed with 1.13 Lakh unit annual consumption of vitality is being met from solar energy.
In fiscal 2021-22, 250 KWp Solar Panels put in at Rail Soudha have generated 2.75 Lakh Units of vitality leading to financial savings of Rs 15.51 Lakh. In the final monetary yr, 320 KWp Solar Panels put in at Hubballi DRM’s Office has generated 84,294 models of electrical energy leading to a saving of Rs 2.80 Lakh. The 80 KWp Solar panels at Bengaluru DRM’s Office have generated 94,115 models of vitality over the past fiscal leading to Rs 4.25 Lakh financial savings. Also, 1.28 Lakh Units of vitality have been generated from the 100 KWp Solar set up at Mysuru DRM’s Office through the monetary yr 2021-22 which has resulted in Rs 5.11 Lakh financial savings.
During the identical interval, 1045kWp Solar Panels put in at Hubballi Workshop generated photo voltaic vitality of 11.21 Lakh models which contributed to Rs 47.28 Lakh as financial savings and 500kWp photo voltaic panels put in at Mysore Workshop generated photo voltaic vitality of 5.36 Lakh models contributing to Rs 18.40 Lakh as financial savings. The technology of 6.77, 2.46 and 1.80 Lakh models has been contributed by 640 kWp photo voltaic panels put in in Hubballi EMD shed, 240kWp photo voltaic panels in Krishnarajapuram Diesel Shed and 170kWp photo voltaic panels in IOH Shed respectively. All three of them collectively contributed to financial savings of Rs 52.04 Lakh.
During 2021-22, Solar Panels at SSS Hubballi railway station had generated vitality of three.38 Lakh Units, 80 KWp Solar Panels at Yesvantpur station has generated 0.95 Lakh Units and 110 KWp Solar Panel at Mysuru station has generated 1.42 Lakh Units. These railway stations generated Rs 21.42 Lakhs financial savings altogether. In the current monetary yr, SWR is planning to put in photo voltaic panels additional at 26 railway stations.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”