Indian Railways to install 5GW of solar by 2025 in partnership with UNDP: Report Updated On Thu, Nov 17th, 2016 by Saurenergy Indian Railways is reportedly targeting to install 5GW of solar by 2025 in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). PV Tech reports that Prodyut Mukherjee, national technical consultant, UNDP at his presentation at the International Conference on Decarbonisation of Indian Railways stated that the target will be realized using vacant Indian Railways land and […] Read more
Indian Railways to install Solar panels in all railway buildings across the nation: Suresh Prabhu Updated On Mon, Jul 18th, 2016 by Saurenergy Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday announced that the ministry is planning to install solar panels in all railways building across the country in near future. The solar plants would be set up at a cost of Rs. 8 crores and is expected to produce 14 lakh unit of power per year. The Minister earlier […] Read more
Indian Railways all set to conduct trial of its first solar-powered train Updated On Mon, May 16th, 2016 by Saurenergy Indian Railways is all set to conduct trail of its first solar powered train in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. The solar power will be used for internal electricity gadgets and the train will be pulled using diesel-run engines. North Western Railways PRO Gopal Sharma speaking to ANI said “Solar panels have been installed on top of the […] Read more
Indian Railways proposes to harness 1000 MW solar and 150MW wind energy by 2020 Updated On Thu, Apr 28th, 2016 by Saurenergy Indian Railways has proposed to harness 1000 Mega Watt (MW) solar and 150 MW wind energy by the year 2020. Minister of State for Railways, Manoj Sinha in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Wednesday said “a total of about 50 MW renewable energy capacity has been installed till date including […] Read more
New Policy for Solar Panels in the Indian Railways Updated On Sat, Mar 5th, 2016 by Saurenergy With Indian government’s aim of making India the ‘clean energy’ kernel, the largest rail network has settled a policy for harnessing solar energy on rooftops of Railway premises. The policy will allow establishing solar power plants through developer mode with a long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) by Railways. The existing policy pronounces rooftops of […] Read more
