{"id":339088,"date":"2020-02-26T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339088"},"modified":"2020-02-26T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:53:47","slug":"senegal-opens-west-africas-first-big-wind-farm-in-push-for-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/senegal-opens-west-africas-first-big-wind-farm-in-push-for-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal opens West Africa&#8217;s first big wind farm in push for renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR: Senegal inaugurated the first large-scale wind farm in West Africa on Monday, a facility that will supply nearly a sixth of the country&#8217;s power when it reaches full capacity later this year.<\/p>\n<p>With the wind farm, Senegal will get 30 per cent of its energy from renewable sources, which has been a goal of President Macky Sall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy mix we have today allows us to move past our dependence on petrol,&#8221; said Papa Mademba Biteye, director-general of Senelec, the national electricity company, at an inauguration ceremony in the rural community of Taiba N&#8217;Diaye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR: Senegal inaugurated the first large-scale wind farm in West Africa on Monday, a facility that will supply nearly a sixth of the country&#8217;s power when it reaches full capacity later this year. With the wind farm, Senegal will get 30 per cent of its energy from renewable sources, which has been a goal of President Macky Sall. &#8220;The energy mix we have today allows us to move past our dependence on petrol,&#8221; said Papa Mademba Biteye, director-general of Senelec, the national electricity company, at an inauguration ceremony in the rural community of Taiba N&#8217;Diaye.<\/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-339088","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\/339088","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=339088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}