Metro Railway launches a rooftop solar power plant for sustainable energy

Taking a step towards sustainability, the metro railway inaugurated a168 KWp grid connected rooftop solar photovoltaic power plant at Tollygunge on November 25 in the presence of P Uday Kumar Reddy, general manager and other senior officers of Metro Railway. This power plant is spread over the roofs of 14 buildings of A & C blocks of Metro staff quarters. It is the first such endeavour in the residential quarters area. The solar power that will be generated here will be used to supply electricity to this quarter complex as well as fed to the grid connected with the sub-station. This would help to supply power to the third line of the metro tracks to run the commercial metro services. This gigantic leap of metro railway towards producing clean and green power will also pave the way to save the government exchequer as well.