The South Western Railway zone of Indian Railways is taking large strides in the direction of turning into a ‘Green Railway’ community. In this path, the Shravanabelagola railway station is more likely to turn into Karnataka’s first carbon-neutral station by assembly its 100 per cent vitality necessities by way of solar energy, the South Western Railway confirmed to Financial Express Online. According to the zonal railway, 7.9 kWp photo voltaic panels have been put in at Shravanabelagola railway station. The plant was commissioned on January 6. It is at present working in ‘off-grid’ mode and in 3 to six months, will probably be synchronized with the grid. As many as 24 photo voltaic panels have been put in on the railway station.
According to South Western Railways, the photo voltaic plant is producing roughly 5 models a day and to synchronize the plant with the grid, approval has been obtained from Cescom. This can export practically 25 models a day. Besides, a photo voltaic tree with a capability of 1 kWp has been put in on the railway station. Also, 5 HP photo voltaic pumps have been commissioned on the railway station, the zonal railway mentioned.
Just a few days in the past, South Western Railway mentioned that it has put in a complete of 4656.60 KWp Solar panels at main stations and repair buildings. The South Western Railway has supplied photo voltaic panels at 120 railway stations rooftop (protecting all main railway stations of the zone together with, SSS Hubballi, Mysuru, KSR Bengaluru, Yesvantpur and so on.) in addition to seven service buildings (Zonal Headquarters Rail Soudha, DRM’s Office – Hubballi, DRM’s Office – Bengaluru, DRM’s Office – Mysuru, Railway Hospital – Hubballi, Railway Hospital – Bengaluru, Parcel Office Bengaluru). Also, Solar Roof high vegetation have been put in at each the Workshops in SWR (Mysuru Workshop and Hubballi Workshop) and at each the Sheds, (Hubballi EMD Shed and Krishnarajapuram Diesel Shed). Apart from these, 295 Level Crossing gates have additionally been supplied with Solar Panels. In 2022-23, SWR is concentrating on to put in solar energy panels in 26 extra railway stations.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”