{"id":370432,"date":"2020-08-28T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370432"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:58:02","slug":"indian-railways-plans-to-use-surplus-railway-land-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-plans-to-use-surplus-railway-land-to-generate-20-gw-of-renewable-energy-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways plans to use surplus railway land to generate 20 GW of renewable energy; details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways is all set to transform into a green mode of transport by using solar energy to power its network! With the national transporter taking various eco-friendly steps already to benefit the environment, Piyush Goyal chaired Railway Ministry now plans to use its surplus land in order to generate 20 GW of renewable energy from the solar or wind equipment, set up under \u2018Made in India\u2019 initiative to power the Indian Railways network. Recently, the Railway Minister was quoted in a PTI report saying that in the coming years, the Indian Railways network will be a 100 per cent electricity-driven railway network which would make it the world\u2019s largest such rail network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways is all set to transform into a green mode of transport by using solar energy to power its network! With the national transporter taking various eco-friendly steps already to benefit the environment, Piyush Goyal chaired Railway Ministry now plans to use its surplus land in order to generate 20 GW of renewable energy from the solar or wind equipment, set up under \u2018Made in India\u2019 initiative to power the Indian Railways network. Recently, the Railway Minister was quoted in a PTI report saying that in the coming years, the Indian Railways network will be a 100 per cent [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370432","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=370432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}