Indian Railways has become one of the most extensively electrified rail systems in the world. Nearly all of India’s 70-thousand route-kilometre broad-gauge network is now powered by electricity. Till November last year, over 99 percent of its entire network was already electrified, marking a major milestone.
The pace of electrification has risen sharply – from about one and a half kilometres per day between 2004 and 2014 to over 15 kilometres per day in the last six years. Indian Railways has also expanded its use of renewable energy, with solar power capacity reaching nearly 900 megawatts by November last year, up from just under four megawatts in 2014.
