{"id":368117,"date":"2020-08-17T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368117"},"modified":"2020-08-17T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:21:38","slug":"solar-energy-to-power-siachen-base-camp-brigade-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-energy-to-power-siachen-base-camp-brigade-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar energy to power Siachen Base Camp, Brigade headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Siachen Base Camp, the gateway to the world\u2019s highest battlefield, and the Siachen Brigade headquarters at Partapur in the Nubra valley of Ladakh are set to be powered by solar energy, according to renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh.<br \/>\n\u201cSECI (Central renewable energy agency) has awarded contracts for setting up two solar-storage power plants of 1 megawatt each at Siachen (Base Camp) and Partapur. Both will have 2 megawatt of battery storage for round-the-clock supply,\u201d Singh told TOI.<br \/>\nThe Siachen project will meet the lighting and heating needs at Base Camp I, II and III. The Partapur project will meet similar needs of the Army\u2019s 102 Brigade tasked with defending the strategically important glacier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Siachen Base Camp, the gateway to the world\u2019s highest battlefield, and the Siachen Brigade headquarters at Partapur in the Nubra valley of Ladakh are set to be powered by solar energy, according to renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh. \u201cSECI (Central renewable energy agency) has awarded contracts for setting up two solar-storage power plants of 1 megawatt each at Siachen (Base Camp) and Partapur. Both will have 2 megawatt of battery storage for round-the-clock supply,\u201d Singh told TOI. The Siachen project will meet the lighting and heating needs at Base Camp I, II and III. The Partapur project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368117","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}