{"id":335360,"date":"2020-02-03T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335360"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:34:44","slug":"large-solar-power-capacity-alongside-rail-track-to-be-set-up-fm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/large-solar-power-capacity-alongside-rail-track-to-be-set-up-fm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Large solar power capacity alongside rail track to be set up: FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The railways on Saturday said about 51,000 hectares of its unused land was available for installing solar plants with a potential to generate 10 GW of clean energy, hours after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a proposal to set up such land-based plants alongside rail tracks in her budget speech.<\/p>\n<p>Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav said the national transporter had planned to set up 1,000-MW solar power plants and about 200-MW wind power plants by 2021-22 across its zones and production units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The railways has till date installed 100.99 MW of solar and 103.4 MW of wind power across its installations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The railways on Saturday said about 51,000 hectares of its unused land was available for installing solar plants with a potential to generate 10 GW of clean energy, hours after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a proposal to set up such land-based plants alongside rail tracks in her budget speech. Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav said the national transporter had planned to set up 1,000-MW solar power plants and about 200-MW wind power plants by 2021-22 across its zones and production units. &#8220;The railways has till date installed 100.99 MW of solar and 103.4 MW of wind power [&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-335360","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\/335360","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=335360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}