{"id":370122,"date":"2020-08-27T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370122"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:43:09","slug":"planning-surplus-land-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/planning-surplus-land-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning surplus land to generate 20 GW of renewable energy: Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways plans to use its surplus land to generate 20 GW of renewable energy from &#8216;Made in India&#8217; solar or wind equipment to power its network, Commerce, Industry and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>He said Indian Railways will be a 100 per cent electricity-driven rail network in coming years which would make it the largest such network in the world. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to use a lot of our surplus land and land along the tracks to generate 20 GW (gigawatts)&#8230;&#8217;Made in India&#8217; solar or wind equipment being used to give us 20 GW production capacity of renewable energy and enough KW (kilowatt) hours to power our entire railway,&#8221; Goyal said. <\/p>\n<p>He was addressing CEEW India&#8217;s programme on &#8216;Powering Livelihoods: Transforming India&#8217;s Rural Economy with Clean Energy Solutions&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways plans to use its surplus land to generate 20 GW of renewable energy from &#8216;Made in India&#8217; solar or wind equipment to power its network, Commerce, Industry and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. He said Indian Railways will be a 100 per cent electricity-driven rail network in coming years which would make it the largest such network in the world. &#8220;We plan to use a lot of our surplus land and land along the tracks to generate 20 GW (gigawatts)&#8230;&#8217;Made in India&#8217; solar or wind equipment being used to give us 20 GW production capacity of [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370122","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=370122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}