Re: Electrification
Author: Max Wyss
Date: 04-26-2014 - 13:26
The question is absolutely legitimate. However, as fossil fuel power plants always operate at their optimum setting, their relative CO2 production is lower than in a diesel engine in a locomotive or DMU, which operates most of the time at a very sub-optimal setting.
In addition, you should take into account the regenerative braking, which feeds a considerable amount of energy used to accelerate back into the grid (and that's "free" and totally "green" energy.