{"id":297559,"date":"2019-10-22T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297559"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T07:18:03","slug":"aditya-aluminium-sets-up-24-mw-solar-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aditya-aluminium-sets-up-24-mw-solar-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Aditya Aluminium sets up 24 MW solar plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Aditya Aluminium, a unit of the metal business of Aditya Birla Group, has set up a 24-MW solar power plant at Lapanga in Sambalpur district. Established at an investment of `151 crore, the plant is spread across 144 acre of ash-filled land. Power produced from the installed solar project will be utilised in aluminium smelting process. Inaugurated by the Chief Minister recently, the plant contributes to the State Government\u2019s goal to generate 2,750 MW of renewable energy, including 2,200 MW solar power by 2022. \u201cSmelters require a consistent load network and uninterrupted power supply.<\/p>\n<p>The load requirement of Aditya Aluminium is also a whopping 658 MW. The green energy generated at the site, however, will act as an incentive for the firm,\u201d said Kailash Pandey, unit head of Aditya Aluminium. \u201cPower fluctuations are very common in solar plants as power generation depends on daylight. Cloudy weather, rains may also cause huge power swings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Aditya Aluminium, a unit of the metal business of Aditya Birla Group, has set up a 24-MW solar power plant at Lapanga in Sambalpur district. Established at an investment of `151 crore, the plant is spread across 144 acre of ash-filled land. Power produced from the installed solar project will be utilised in aluminium smelting process. Inaugurated by the Chief Minister recently, the plant contributes to the State Government\u2019s goal to generate 2,750 MW of renewable energy, including 2,200 MW solar power by 2022. \u201cSmelters require a consistent load network and uninterrupted power supply. The load requirement of Aditya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}