{"id":297888,"date":"2019-10-25T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297888"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:29:08","slug":"up-to-electrify-water-bodies-to-generate-13500-mw-of-solar-energy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-to-electrify-water-bodies-to-generate-13500-mw-of-solar-energy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UP to &#8216;electrify&#8217; water bodies to generate 13,500 mw of solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh government is planning to install solar power panels above the state&#8217;s expansive network of canals and water bodies to generate almost 13,500 megawatt (Mw) of solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>The state is planning to forge long-term contracts with private sector energy majors for the purpose and prepare a roadmap for efficient management of solar power and water resources. <\/p>\n<p>According to the UP Jalshakti minister Dr Mahendra Singh, with a view to making the state self reliant in renewable energy, the department was planning to draft a long-term action plan for harnessing the canals, reservoirs, embankments, fallow land etc to generate 13,500 Mw of solar energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh government is planning to install solar power panels above the state&#8217;s expansive network of canals and water bodies to generate almost 13,500 megawatt (Mw) of solar energy. The state is planning to forge long-term contracts with private sector energy majors for the purpose and prepare a roadmap for efficient management of solar power and water resources. According to the UP Jalshakti minister Dr Mahendra Singh, with a view to making the state self reliant in renewable energy, the department was planning to draft a long-term action plan for harnessing the canals, reservoirs, embankments, fallow land etc to generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297888","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}