{"id":372698,"date":"2020-09-09T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372698"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:39:01","slug":"india-aims-for-half-of-state-run-fuel-stations-to-be-solar-powered-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-aims-for-half-of-state-run-fuel-stations-to-be-solar-powered-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India aims for half of state-run fuel stations to be solar-powered in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India aims for 50% of fuel stations owned by public sector oil companies to be operated by solar power within five years under the government&#8217;s green energy drive, its oil minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dharmendra Pradhan said India&#8217;s three state-backed fuel retailers Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum, which operate about 63,150 fuel station across India, are moving to deploy solar panels across their operations.<\/p>\n<p>They have currently installed a combined 270 megawatts (MW) of solar power capacity and will add 60 MW more capacity in the coming year, Pradhan said.<\/p>\n<p>With government encouragement, Indian oil and gas companies are turning to investing in green energy such as renewables, biofuels and hydrogen to reduce the country&#8217;s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India aims for 50% of fuel stations owned by public sector oil companies to be operated by solar power within five years under the government&#8217;s green energy drive, its oil minister said on Tuesday. Dharmendra Pradhan said India&#8217;s three state-backed fuel retailers Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum, which operate about 63,150 fuel station across India, are moving to deploy solar panels across their operations. They have currently installed a combined 270 megawatts (MW) of solar power capacity and will add 60 MW more capacity in the coming year, Pradhan said. With government encouragement, Indian oil and [&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-372698","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\/372698","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=372698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}