Bhubaneswar, Aug 7 (Reporter) The East Coast Railway (ECoR), in line with the policy of Indian Railways, has adopted various steps to generate more green energy by installing Rooftop Solar Power Plants in station and service buildings and other installations over its jurisdiction. ECoR plans to install 21826 KWp capacity Solar Plants so that it will save approximately Rs.14 Crores from Energy Bill and Rs.91.41 lakh from Carbon Credit. Under this project, East Coast Railway will install Solar Power Plants at 149 Station Buildings, 248 Service Buildings, 6924 Residential Buildings, and at 366 Level Crossing (LC) Gates over its jurisdiction. Out of the above, tenders have been floated for Rs.83.79 Crores, which includes Solar Power Plants/Renewable Solar Energy Sources on grid plants of different capacities on rooftops and shed tops in various locations. They included Brahmapur-Palasa Railway Section at a cost of Rs.9.13 crore, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Paradeep-Bhadrak Railway section at a cost of Rs.8.86 crore, Angul Section at Rs.9.48 crore. The Headquarters area in Bhubaneswar ,Khurda Road-Puri Section,Paradeep-Kendujhargarh Railway Section Visakhapatnam area andVisakhapatnam Electric Loco Shed area,Duvvada-Palasa Main Line/Naupada-Gunupur/Vizianagaram-Rayagada have also been included for installation of solar power plants. Major Station Buildings and Service Buildings like Headquarters Building, Rail Sadan at Chandrasekharpur, have also been provided with Rooftop Solar Power Plants/Renewable Energy sources. ECoR sources said Solar/Renewable Energy Systems have also been installed at the Level Crossing Gates at most of the places in ECoR jurisdiction...////...