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Indian Railways bags highest ever 27 National Energy Conservation Awards for the Year 2015-16 

The continuous efforts of Ministry of Railways and Zonal Railways to embrace various energy efficient technologies and energy conservation measures had resulted in bagging 27 National Energy Conservation Awards (NECA) this year, highest ever by Railways. These awards are given annually by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) which is under aegis of Ministry of Power, Government of India to aware people about the importance of energy as well as conserving the energy by using energy efficient equipments & systems and for encouraging energy conservations in various energy intensive sectors. This year a total of 156 awardees were selected out of 921 applications in various categories.
●    These awards were given in 22 major category (like Railways, hospitals, office buildings, industry, power, plant etc.) covering 53 different subsectors of large and medium scale industries mainly on the basis of improvement in specific energy and energy conservation initiatives based on recommendations of an Award Evaluation Committee under Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). 
●    Electrical Energy Management Directorate of Ministry of Railways has enunciated a number of policies for implementation by Zonal Railways for reducing the energy intensity and electricity consumption. These includes
●    Installation of 100% LED lights at all Railway buildings & installations.
●    Using of 3 phase energy efficient locomotives.
●    Net zero energy building concept for new Railway stations
●    Use of BEE Star rated equipments  in Railway applications
●    Energy audits of large load centres, to assess demand profile and actual end use to map energy consumption pattern
●    Implementation of energy efficiency related works with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) over Railways

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