LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways has successfully installed a 1000-unit solar system at PR headquarters to make it’s all working areas free of load shedding.
Pakistan Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique inaugurated the system at the PR headquarters on Friday. He congratulated PR CEO Javed Anwar, AGM Mechanical M Ansarullah Khan, Chief Electrical Engineer Ambreen Zaman and administration as well as workers on the generation of one thousand units from the system.
The minister said on the occasion, that all four workshops of the railways, washing line, railway station, headquarters building, divisional office, loco-shed and PR Karen Hospital had been made load shedding-free by fulfilling needs of the modern era.
The minister said that the solar system installed at the Karen Hospital and headquarters would not only produce 400,000 to 500,000 units per annum for the railways but these systems would also generate extra power for Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) on Sundays and other holidays.
Saad said that earlier, the work had to stop during load shedding in workshops which cost the Railways Rs 2 million per hour.
“There was a time when the electrical connections of workshops were being cut, but now all workshops are working day and night,” he added.
