The Kacheguda railway station in Telangana is the most energy-efficient station in the country, the South Central Railway announced on Friday.
The station achieved the feat by replacing 1,312 conventional lights with light-emitting diode, or LED, lighting, the railway division said in a statement. It also replaced 370 ceiling fans with fans that run on Brushless DC Electrical motors, and installed 12 energy efficient inverter-type air conditioners.
“With these initiatives, it will save about 1.76 lakh units [of electricity] and Rs 14.08 lakh per annum with reduction of the connected load by 46.18 kW for Railways,” the railways said.
The station, which is at present in the Hyderabad division of the South Central Railway, was built in 1916 during the reign of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan.
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