India's South Western Railway (SWA) has installed solar panels with a combined capacity of 3.5 MW on 19 of its offices and workshops. SWA has already commissioned 3.3 MW of 4.5 MW rooftop solar capacity, as well as 860 kW of rooftop grid-connected capacity which, when complete, will give the railway 4.7 MW of solar capacity, generating 15% of its annual non-traction energy requirements and saving INR18.3m ($$0.25 million) a year.
India's South Western Railway (SWA) has installed solar panels with a combined capacity of 3.5 MW on 19 of its offices and workshops. SWA has already commissioned 3.3 MW of 4.5 MW rooftop solar capacity, as well as 860 kW of rooftop grid-connected capacity which, when complete, will give the railway 4.7 MW of solar capacity, generating 15% of its annual non-traction energy requirements and saving INR18.3m ($250,000) a year.