State company to cut reliance on diesel and shift to electric trains
Irish Rail will reduce reliance on diesel and shift to electric trains in an attempt to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than 71,000 tonnes a year, the State rail company said on Monday.
It plans to halve this by reducing its reliance on diesel, by switching locomotives to alternative fuels and using more electric-powered trains, generating green energy and buying it directly from suppliers, and fleet and building work designed to cut energy use.Irish Rail pledged to do this while increasing services, boosting passenger journeys to 80 million a year, from a pre-Covid high of 50.1 million, and doubling the amount of freight it carries.
DAA said logistics company Exolum would refit the fuel supply station at Dublin Airport to provide hydrotreated vegetable oil to power the trucks that supply fuel to aircraft on the airfield.The switch means that the trucks will use 300,000 fewer litres of diesel annually, cutting about 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, “bringing Dublin Airport one step closer to its goal of net zero emissions by 2050″, said DAA group head of sustainability Andrea Carroll.
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