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Rooftop star plants person been commissioned astatine 148 railway stations crossed the South Western Railway (SWR) zone, arsenic portion of Indian Railways’ propulsion towards renewable vigor adoption and its extremity of achieving net-zero c emissions by 2030.
According to officials, the large-scale rollout of star photovoltaic systems spans stations, work and administrative buildings, workshops, traction and non-traction installations, level crossing gates and h2o pumping systems crossed Karnataka and parts of Goa nether SWR. Major stations equipped with rooftop star facilities see Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna (KSR) Bengaluru Railway Station astatine Majestic, Hubballi, Mysuru, Dharwad, Belagavi, Hosapete, Gadag and Ballari.
Solar rooftop systems astatine 302 level crossing gates
In summation to stations, 38 work buildings, including Rail Soudha, divisional offices, railway hospitals and grooming institutes, person been fitted with star installations.
“Key accumulation and attraction units specified arsenic the Hubballi Workshop (1,045 kilo Watt Peak kWp), Mysuru Workshop (530 kWp), Krishnarajapuram Diesel Loco Shed (240 kWp) and Hubballi EMD Shed (640 kWp) person further strengthened the zone’s renewable vigor footprint. Solar rooftop systems person besides been installed astatine 302 level crossing gates, ensuring uninterrupted and environment-friendly powerfulness supply,” a elder SWR authoritative said.
Solar powerfulness procreation and savings
Solar powerfulness procreation (FY 2025–26, up to Oct): 4.13 cardinal units
Savings successful FY 2025–26 (up to Oct): ₹2.61 crore
Solar powerfulness procreation successful FY 2024–25: 6.86 cardinal units
Savings successful FY 2024-25: ₹4.07 crore
Source: South Western Railway (SWR)
The authoritative further said that the SWR zone’s cumulative installed star capableness has reached 7,491.6 kWp arsenic of November 2025, reflecting a dependable emergence from 6,986 kWp astatine the extremity of the erstwhile fiscal year. “This summation underlines our systematic and sustained attack towards renewable vigor adoption. Regular cleaning, preventive attraction and show monitoring person helped amended the capableness utilisation origin and guarantee optimum output,” the authoritative added.
4.13 MU star power
During the existent fiscal twelvemonth 2025–26, up to October, SWR generated 4.13 Million Units of star power, resulting successful savings of astir ₹2.61 crore. In 2024–25, star procreation stood astatine 6.86 MU, translating into savings of astir ₹4.07 crore. Officials noted that accordant year-on-year maturation successful star powerfulness procreation has contributed importantly to reducing energy procurement costs.
Beyond rooftop installations, SWR has leveraged unfastened entree renewable powerfulness procurement, with 36 traction sub-stations operating nether specified arrangements. “Green powerfulness procurement has resulted successful important fiscal savings portion reducing dependence connected accepted vigor sources,” the authoritative explained.
