{"id":622856,"date":"2023-12-16T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622856"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T06:29:12","slug":"electrification-of-indian-railways-government-says-railways-needs-30-billion-units-of-power-after-full-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electrification-of-indian-railways-government-says-railways-needs-30-billion-units-of-power-after-full-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrification of Indian Railways: Government says Railways needs 30 billion units of power after full electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply, informed the Lok Sabha that the Indian Railways would require around 30.13 billion units of electricity after 100 per cent of its broad gauge lines. <\/p>\n<p>The minister said this in reply to a query by BJP MP Rajesh Chudasama who wanted an update on the electrification. Vaishnaw said the Indian Railways is progressively procuring renewable energy from various sources for its present and future requirements. <\/p>\n<p>Besides wanting to know the electrification status, Chudasama also sought information about the anticipated consumption post full electrification and the strategy the Railways intends to employ to meet the increased electricity demand using renewable sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply, informed the Lok Sabha that the Indian Railways would require around 30.13 billion units of electricity after 100 per cent of its broad gauge lines. The minister said this in reply to a query by BJP MP Rajesh Chudasama who wanted an update on the electrification. Vaishnaw said the Indian Railways is progressively procuring renewable energy from various sources for its present and future requirements. Besides wanting to know the electrification status, Chudasama also sought information about the anticipated consumption post full electrification and the strategy the Railways intends to employ to [&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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622856","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=622856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}