In a bid to combat climate changes, Indian Railways has decided to become carbon-free by 2030. They have initiated a number of major initiatives to mitigate global warming and combat climate change.
5 key initiatives for taking the green route are —
♻️ Electrification
♻️ Energy Efficiency
♻️ Green Certification
♻️ Bio-toilets
♻️ Renewable Energy
Here are the Highlights–
1– Electrification of all routes on Broad Gauge by December 2023.
2– Solar and wind energy to power the Railway electricity grid in a big way.
3– Indian Railways has completed electrification of more than 40,000 RKM (63% of BG routes).
4– 18,605 km electrification work has been done during 2014-20 compared to 3,835 km in 2009-14.
5– 365 km major connectivity work has been commissioned during even during COVID period.
6– 100 MW of Solar plants have been commissioned on roof-tops of various buildings including 900 stations; 400 MW are under different stages of execution.
7– Indian Railway has 51,000 hectares of the land potential of installing 20 GW land-based solar plants.
8– One project of 1.7 MW at Bina in collaboration with BHEL has already been installed.
9– In the Wind Energy sector, 103 MW wind-based power plants have already been commissioned; planned to set up 200 MW wind energy plants in next 2 years in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
10– 100% LED illumination of buildings and stations.
11– Total 505 pairs of trains have been converted to HOG, unleashing approx 70 million litre diesel/ Rs.450 crore per annum potential of saving.
12– A total of 69,000 coaches have been fitted with 2,44,000 bio-toilets in Indian Railways.
South Eastern Railways also tweeted about the same —
— SouthEasternRailway (@serailwaykol) July 14, 2020
