The Minister for Railways, Mamata Banerjee has declared
2011-12 as the ‘Year of Green Energy’.
Announcing this in Parliament today, the Minister listed some of the
environment friendly measures taken by the Railways:
- Free supply of 14 lakh CFLs to railway households and phasing out of
incandescent lamps.
- Regenerative braking in Mumbai
EMUs.
- Windmill at ICF, Chennai.
- Production of locos with ‘hotel
land converter’.
- Increase use of solar energy at LC
gates, stations etc.
- Use of bio-diesel, CNG and LNG in
locos, workshops etc.
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