Rajasthan Leads with the Highest 275 Installations
Sangrur, 02 April (Sunil Kumar Gund): Solar energy plays a major role in cost cutting as well as Round The Clock (RTC) supply of power. Indian Railways is making all endeavors to promote solar energy in line with the Government policies to proliferate renewable energy, environmental sustainability and to achieve long-term financial savings. The transition to renewable energy is an ongoing process.
Making clear its vision towards renewable energy, Indian Railways has planned to progressively procure renewable energy through different power procurement modes for Round The Clock (RTC) power, which is a hybrid solution for renewables power including solara of India and wind etc. Most of the work of setting up solar plants is undertaken by Railways through Power Purchase Agreement under developer mode.
During implementation of solar energy, many challenges like regulatory constraints, power evacuation and connectivity issues were faced by the railways. To tackle these and all such issues, State Governments and Transmission Utilities were pursued on regular basis.
So far, about 209 MW of solar plants on 2249 Railway stations and service buildings across the country have been provided.
For the knowledge of the readers, it is pertinent to mention here that this information was given by the Union Minister of Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Story by: Sunil Kumar Gund
