In a bid to reduce its carbon footprints, the Indian Railways is adopting existing clean energy solutions such as solar energy, bio-diesel, CNG, etc. and is also planning to embrace such technologies currently under development in the future.
“Solar panels have been fitted on rooftop of Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) trains of capacity 4.5 KWp for catering to hotel load. Blending of high-speed diesel with Biodiesel by 5% has also been started for railway locomotives. Running of DEMU trains with Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) has also been introduced as a pilot project over 18 trains,” stated the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
