Chennai: Southern Railway was awarded the first prize in zonal railways category in the ‘National energy conservation award 2015’ on December 14 at New Delhi. The award is for different parameters including introduction of schemes such as three-phase loco with regenerative braking, improvement in driving techniques of loco pilots, traction peak load management, power factor improvement and the use of energy efficient LED lamps.
“Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) of goods has improved from 7.64 in 2013-14 to 6.67 in 2014-15, as an improvement of 12.7 per cent. With this improvement we have achieved a reduction in energy consumption of 63.31 lakhs units resulting in saving of 424.81 lakh,” said R.K. Kulshrestha, chief electrical engineer, Southern Railway to Deccan Chronicle.
“We have also supplied 25,000 LED lamps to the railway staffs at their place of stay and at offices for the past one year and are looking to sell one lakh lamps within the next 10 months,’ Kulshrestha added.
On account of the various steps that are been undertaken, 0.757 lakh units have been saved per annum, thereby saving Rs 6.05 lakh per annum.
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