{"id":370156,"date":"2020-08-27T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370156"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:25:12","slug":"plan-to-use-surplus-land-of-railways-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-piyush-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plan-to-use-surplus-land-of-railways-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-piyush-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to use surplus land of railways to generate 20 GW of renewable energy: Piyush 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. 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","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":39,"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-370156","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\/370156","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}