Indian Railways are running less in the period of Lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.Today we will discuss in this blog that when the electric locomotives are not in operation on the tracks then how the Indian Railways save electricity.
Lets get more information about this topic that when all electric Locomotives are closed then were does all electricity go that is produced and flowing in the Overhead Electricity cables.
Before knowing this topic we need to know what is electricity.Electricity is an energy that human cannot see but can feel it because it is transferrable from one place to another from different mediums which is made through flow of electron in it.
These all informations are technical to be understood so lets discuss in simple words imagine that Indian Railways required to produce 100 megawatts of electricity to run all its electric locomotives.So the Indian Railways will tell the power plant to produce that amount of electricity and transfer it over to the Overhead Electricity Cables to be used the Railway Locomotives.
Now if the Locomotive of the Indian Railways run or not on the tracks but that amount of electricity is transferred on to the poles so is the Locomotive will be operated on the tracks then the electricity will be used by the Indian Railways and if the Locomotives does not run on the tracks then that amount of electricity is wasted because the power plant duty is only to transfer the electricity over to the poles.
The amount of electricity is not wasted so as to tackle this problem the Indian Railways will tell the power plant to produce only that much amount of electricity that is required to be used.Like the Indian Railways want to use only 50 megawatts of electricity so it will tell the power plant to produce only 50 megawatts of electricity which can be used to operate the Locomotives.So by this method the electricity will not be wasted at this time.This concludes that the railways are daily taking updated decisions for the proper growth and development of the Indian railways in the Country.
