{"id":508146,"date":"2022-07-23T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508146"},"modified":"2022-07-23T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:03:25","slug":"andhra-pradesh-gets-a-new-floating-solar-power-plant-on-meghadri-gedda-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/andhra-pradesh-gets-a-new-floating-solar-power-plant-on-meghadri-gedda-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh gets a new floating solar power plant on Meghadri Gedda reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A floating solar power plant was Friday commissioned at Meghadri Gedda reservoir in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Visakhapatnam by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC).<\/p>\n<p>G Lakshmisha, Commissioner of GVMC, told news agency ANI the power plant can produce 4.2 million units of power each year, and has been started on 12 acres of area. \u201cBesides that, we\u2019re also saving 54,000 tonnes of coal per year and reducing emissions by 3,022 tonnes per year,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>The commissioning comes weeks after India\u2019s largest floating solar plant became operational at Ramagundam in Telangana\u2019s Peddapalli district. The 100-megawatt (MW) floating solar power photovoltaic project was commissioned by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country\u2019s foremost public-sector power generator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A floating solar power plant was Friday commissioned at Meghadri Gedda reservoir in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Visakhapatnam by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). G Lakshmisha, Commissioner of GVMC, told news agency ANI the power plant can produce 4.2 million units of power each year, and has been started on 12 acres of area. \u201cBesides that, we\u2019re also saving 54,000 tonnes of coal per year and reducing emissions by 3,022 tonnes per year,\u201d he added. The commissioning comes weeks after India\u2019s largest floating solar plant became operational at Ramagundam in Telangana\u2019s Peddapalli district. The 100-megawatt (MW) floating solar power photovoltaic project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508146","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}