Vijayawada station became the first Solar Railway Station in the country to be covered with 130 kWp solar panels

Indian Railways’ Vijayawada station in the state of Andhra Pradesh became the first railway station in the country to be covered with 130 kWp solar panels.

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The national transporter plans to be a Net Zero Carbon Emitter by the year 2030.

Earlier, Indian Railways had said that for meeting its traction power requirement, it plans to set up solar plants on unused vacant railway land.

Indian Railways plans to install 20 GW land based solar plants.

In order to further proliferate these pilot projects, the national transporter has initially planned to set up 3 GWp of land based solar plants in three phases.