More than half of Delhi Metro now runs on solar power coming all the way from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. This means that 290 trains across 373 kilometers serving 2.6 million passengers in a single day are now green.
The Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company Ltd, which supplies power to the state electricity distribution companies, will get the remaining 76 percent of the power produced from the Rewa solar power plant. An innovative scheduling exercise has enabled the solar plant to provide preferential uninterrupted power supply to Delhi Metro first, even on the days without optimum sun availability.
The park, with an installed capacity of 750 megawatt, has been made possible with support from the World Bank and Clean Technology Fund through a US$ 18 million fundingю
Original source: World Bank
Published on 11 June 2019