Kacheguda Railway Station achieves 100% Energy Efficiency

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 01:16 PM

Kacheguda Railway Station achieves 100% Energy Efficiency

Hyderabad, Dec 09: The Kacheguda railway station has earned the distinction of being the first energy-efficient 'A1 Category' railway station in the country, the South Central Railway (SCR) said.

Kacheguda railway station in Hyderabad division of the SCR has achieved 100 percent energy efficiency by replacing 1,312 conventional lights with light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, 370 ceiling fans with Brushless DC Electrical (BLDC) motors energy-efficient fans and 12 air conditioners with energy efficient inverter type ACs, the SCR statement said.

Kacheguda has earned the distinction of being the first energy-efficient 'A1 Category' railway station.

"With these initiatives, it will save about 1.76 lakh units and Rs.14.08 lakh per annum with reduction of the connected load by 46.18 kW for Railways," it said. SCR general manager, Vinod Kumar Yadav, complimented divisional railway manager of Hyderabad division, Arun Kumar Jain, on the achievement.

The statement added that Kacheguda is a "historic and the most beautiful" railway station building on SCR and one of the landmarks of Hyderabad city.

Complimenting Divisional Railway Manager Arun Kumar Jain and his colleagues V. Venkata Ramana and P. Prem Kumar for the feat, Mr. Yadav said they had put in extensive efforts to achieve this distinction.