Giving more information about the project, Ludhiana station director Abhinav Singla said, "Around 2 MW of power generating system will be received by the Ludhiana railway soon. Once the solar power plant on the rooftop of the railway station is fully operational, the bill will be cut by about 60%.The plan to introduce rooftop solar panel technology for electricity generation at 8,000 railway stations, a massive project of the railway ministry, will provide the Northern Railway with around 20 Megawatt of solar power generation capacity, of which, Ludhiana railway station will receive around 2 Megawatt of solar energy system. Then in November last year , the firm tendered 32 MW rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, which will be installed at offices, buildings and railway stations at the zonal level. "The installation of solar energy system will definitely help in saving a huge amount," he said.Earlier, the Railways had planned to set up 500 Megawatt of solar energy system to meet the energy requirements of over 8,000 stations and the Railway Energy Management Company Limited (REMCL) had first auctioned 67.38MW of rooftop solar project in August, 2017. For the speedy implementation of the project, a team of Azure Power Company, which has signed a contract with the railway ministry for the solar plant installation, visited the Ludhiana station to identify the suitable sites where the rooftop solar energy system would be set up.
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