{"id":309848,"date":"2020-01-10T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309848"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T06:30:57","slug":"railways-to-source-1-2-gw-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-to-source-1-2-gw-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways to source 1.2 GW green energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways plans to source about 1.2 GW power from renewable energy sources by 2021-22 across all zones and production units. Of this, about 1,000 MW, or 1 GW, would come from solar and 200 MW from wind, the national transporter said in a statement issued on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Towards this goal, 500 MW solar capacity will be installed on the roofs of railway department buildings which will be used to meet non-traction loads at railway stations. The remaining 500 MW land-based solar plants will be used to meet both traction and non-traction requirements. \u201cSouth Central Railway is one of the zones actively implementing several measures aimed at energy conservation by harnessing renewable energy,\u201d Indian Railways said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways plans to source about 1.2 GW power from renewable energy sources by 2021-22 across all zones and production units. Of this, about 1,000 MW, or 1 GW, would come from solar and 200 MW from wind, the national transporter said in a statement issued on Thursday. Towards this goal, 500 MW solar capacity will be installed on the roofs of railway department buildings which will be used to meet non-traction loads at railway stations. The remaining 500 MW land-based solar plants will be used to meet both traction and non-traction requirements. \u201cSouth Central Railway is one of the [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309848","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=309848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}