The South Eastern Railway Zone is focusing on becoming self-sufficient in electricity to avoid future electricity shortages. They aim to achieve this by installing rooftop solar plants on station buildings and other vacant areas in Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal under a public-private partnership model by May. The railway plans to...
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invest over 37.82 crores to generate 939 MW of solar energy through these rooftop installations. Bids were invited from interested agencies till April 30th, with a target completion time of 240 days. Surveys have been conducted for the project at various railway buildings in the Tatanagar and Chakradharpur divisions. The plan involves installing solar grids at approximately 100 out of the zone's 315 stations, including prominent ones like Tatanagar, Adityapur, Ranchi, Bokaro, Hatia, Muri, Chaibasa, Chandil, and several stations under the Adra and Kharagpur divisions. After equipping buildings with solar systems, the railway will also install solar plants on vacant land alongside the railway lines.