{"id":370163,"date":"2020-08-27T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370163"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:27:25","slug":"plan-to-use-surplus-land-of-railways-to-generate-20-gw-renewable-energy-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plan-to-use-surplus-land-of-railways-to-generate-20-gw-renewable-energy-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to use surplus land of railways to generate 20 GW renewable energy: Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : 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 [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370163","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=370163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}