KMRL has been able to meet 51% of its total power requirements from solar power as a result of the commissioning of 1.80 MW solar power plant at Kochi Metro’s coach depot at Muttom on Thursday.
The plant was inaugurated by the agency’s MD Loknath Behera. With this, its total installed capacity of solar power generation has reached 9.90 MW. With the imminent commissioning of a plant in the third phase, it is set to increase further to 10.50 MW.
This will result in the production of a total of 147.49 lakh units of solar power from the metro’s solar plant every year – equivalent to reducing carbon emissions by 3.22 lakh tonnes or the oxygen generated by planting 5.16 lakh teak trees, an official release said.
Over the years, KMRL converted the fallow land near the depot into a solar plant.