{"id":9190,"date":"2022-11-24T05:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2022-11-24T05:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:17:51","slug":"sydney-metro-upgrade-of-central-station-powering-towards-a-greener-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9190","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Metro &#8211; Upgrade of Central Station Powering Towards a Greener Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following introduction of the 116-year-old station\u2019s first solar panels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydneymetro.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney Metro<\/a>\u2019s transformation of Central Station is powering ahead sustainably.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quantity of total solar panels installed at Australia\u2019s busiest railway station is 664, which are due to generate 366.3 megawatt hours of solar energy each year, the equivalent amount of energy required to charge a Model 3 Tesla 6,783 times or power an average Australian home for 52 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sydney-Metro-Central-Station-Solar-Panels-Installation-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Metro Central Station Solar Panels Installation\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The power lights across three Central Station platforms will be provided through the renewable energy generated from the solar array and this is going to reduce the electricity demand of Sydney Trains assets at the station by around 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being installed on top of new canopies above intercity railway platforms 12 to 14, the solar panels have no impact on the station\u2019s heritage value.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sydney-Metro-Central-Station-Solar-Panels-Installation-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Metro Central Station Solar Panels Installation\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scheduled date for operation of the new solar array is in time for when metro services start at the station in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following introduction of the 116-year-old station\u2019s first solar panels, Sydney Metro\u2019s transformation of Central Station is powering ahead sustainably. The quantity of total solar panels installed at Australia\u2019s busiest railway station is 664, which are due to generate 366.3 megawatt hours of solar energy each year, the equivalent amount of energy required to charge a Model 3 Tesla 6,783 times or power an average Australian home for 52 years. The power lights across three Central Station platforms will be provided through the renewable energy generated from the solar array and this is going to reduce the electricity demand of Sydney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[215,1801,2739,2038,47],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-australia","tag-central-station","tag-powering","tag-sydney-metro-project","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}