{"id":309463,"date":"2020-01-08T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309463"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:35:51","slug":"indian-railways-bets-big-on-solar-and-wind-power-check-visionary-move-by-national-transporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-bets-big-on-solar-and-wind-power-check-visionary-move-by-national-transporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways bets big on solar and wind power! Check visionary move by national transporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways pushes for clean-green energy! Taking forward its green energy initiative, Indian Railways has decided to offer land, which is lying vacant, to install 500-megawatt solar power plants. These solar power plants will fulfill the energy requirement of the national transporter. As part of an ambitious plan, Indian Railways is aiming to install 200-MW wind plants and 500-MW solar power plants by 2021-22 across the zones and production units (PUs), as per a PTI report. The 500-MW solar power plants will be installed atop roofs of buildings belonging to Indian Railways. The installation process will be carried out under the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Railways has already launched a pilot project for land-based power plants. Under this project, a three-megawatt plant has been installed at the Modern Coach Factory (MCF), Raebareli. Apart from this, the work underway for a 50-MW plant on a 300-acre vacant railway land in Bhilai. This plant is scheduled to be commissioned by March 2021, Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav was quoted as saying in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways pushes for clean-green energy! Taking forward its green energy initiative, Indian Railways has decided to offer land, which is lying vacant, to install 500-megawatt solar power plants. These solar power plants will fulfill the energy requirement of the national transporter. As part of an ambitious plan, Indian Railways is aiming to install 200-MW wind plants and 500-MW solar power plants by 2021-22 across the zones and production units (PUs), as per a PTI report. The 500-MW solar power plants will be installed atop roofs of buildings belonging to Indian Railways. The installation process will be carried out under [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309463","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=309463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}