{"id":410867,"date":"2021-04-16T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410867"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:28:33","slug":"facebook-signs-first-deal-to-buy-renewable-energy-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/facebook-signs-first-deal-to-buy-renewable-energy-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook signs first deal to buy renewable energy in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has signed a deal to buy renewable energy in India from a local firm&#8217;s wind power project, the social media giant&#8217;s first such deal in the South Asian nation, the companies said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 megawatt wind power project, located in southern Karnataka state, is part of a larger portfolio of wind and solar projects that Facebook and Mumbai-based CleanMax are working together on for supplying renewable power into India&#8217;s electrical grid, they said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>CleanMax will own and operate the projects, while Facebook will buy the power off the grid using environmental attribute certificates, or carbon credits, the companies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has signed a deal to buy renewable energy in India from a local firm&#8217;s wind power project, the social media giant&#8217;s first such deal in the South Asian nation, the companies said on Thursday. The 32 megawatt wind power project, located in southern Karnataka state, is part of a larger portfolio of wind and solar projects that Facebook and Mumbai-based CleanMax are working together on for supplying renewable power into India&#8217;s electrical grid, they said in a joint statement. CleanMax will own and operate the projects, while Facebook will buy the power off the grid using environmental attribute certificates, [&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-410867","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\/410867","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=410867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}