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It runs entirely on solar energy, using 6.6 kW of roof-mounted panels and 30 kW of solar installed at the depot. The train produces more energy than it consumes, with the excess sent back to the local grid. India has retrofitted Diesel Electric Multiple Units (DEMUs) with roof-mounted solar panels.
The industrial sector also has approximately about 200MW of solar generation capacity. For more information, you can read this article on both grid connected and distributed solar generation. Solar power is increasingly important to New Zealand as it provides a low-cost clean, renewable energy source.
A large proportion of new electricity generation in New Zealand is from solar farms. New Zealand’s first large-scale solar farm connected to the grid was Kohirā in Kaitaiā, in November 2023. Since then, four other large-scale solar farms have come online (Figure 3).
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