Indian Railways’ Anand Vihar Terminal railway station (ANVT) in Delhi is setting a benchmark with the use of solar-power! Apart from getting the tag of ‘silver-green’ station, Anand Vihar Terminal railway station is saving cost, cutting down on Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and becoming a model for other Indian Railways stations to follow. Anand Vihar Terminal railway station is a key railway station in Delhi-NCR. With average footfalls of 1 lakh per day, it caters mainly to the east-bound trains traversing through highly-populated states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
Under Indian Railways’ mega project of making railway stations across India solar-powered, solar panels were installed at Anand Vihar Terminal railway station. The date of commissioning was October 2017. These solar panels have a capacity of 800 KWP with average solar power generation per month stands at 72000 KWh. The number of modules, inverters, ACDB is 3200, 16 and 3 respectively, according to Indian Railways’ documents accessed by Financial Express Online.
