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Sumitomo and Hankyu to test power-saving equipment on Manila rail line
Sumitomo and Hankyu will test power-saving equipment on a railway in the Philippines.
The pilot will take place on LRT-1 in Metro Manila.
Sumitomo is a Japanese trading house, and Hankyu is a railway operator.
The project is expected to save enough electricity to power 2,000 households.
That estimate gives a sense of the potential scale of the electricity savings.
The companies will launch the pilot project on the rail line.
Sumitomo Corp. and railway operator Hankyu will launch a pilot project on Manila’s LRT-1 rail line.
The project will test power-saving equipment.
The equipment is expected to save enough electricity to power 2,000 households.
- Who
- Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. and railway operator Hankyu.
- What
- They will launch a pilot project to test power-saving equipment.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Manila’s LRT-1 rail line in the Philippines.
- Why
- The equipment is expected to save enough electricity to power 2,000 households.
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- Companies
- Sumitomo Corp. and Hankyu
- Project
- Pilot test of power-saving equipment
- Rail line
- LRT-1
- Location
- Manila, Philippines
- Expected electricity savings
- Enough to power 2,000 households