Hyderabad Metro Rail has made significant strides in its green initiatives giving priority to water conservation by constructing over 150 water-harvesting pits and restoring groundwater table, apart from installing 8.35 MWp of captive solar plants on rooftops of 28 metro stations.
The public transport has the state-of-the-art regenerative braking system, which is converter-inverter based propulsion system, and has the capability to pump back around 40% energy received by way of regenerative braking to the source, said L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) MD & CEO KVB Reddy on Saturday.
About 23 metro stations are Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) Platinum certified and the metro stations are designed to attract 100% daylight and cross ventilation at the platform and concourse level, making them eco-friendly and low in energy consumption, he explained at an interactive awareness session at Ameerpet metro station held on occasion of the World Environment Day.
