Indian Railways are now employing new generation electric locomotive which have a regenerative feature to generate electric power during braking by using three phase propulsion technology to convert kinetic energy as electric power during braking. Forty such locomotives are part of the fleet of Northern Railway, and work in prestigious Rajdhani / Shatabdi express and other important Mail/Express trains. The energy generated during braking by these locomotives was about 2 million kilowatt hours during October 2007.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri R.Velu in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
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