{"id":91695,"date":"2016-11-24T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=91695"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:53:12","slug":"adani-aims-to-build-1500-mw-of-solar-plants-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/adani-aims-to-build-1500-mw-of-solar-plants-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Adani aims to build 1,500 MW of solar plants in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Adani Group said on Thursday it has secured land to build a A$200 million ($148 million) solar farm in Australia, the first part of a five-year drive to construct 1,500 megawatts of solar energy plants in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The solar push comes as Adani continues to battle opposition to its plans to build a $7 billion coal mine in Australia, a project that has been long-delayed due to a string of environmental lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Adani, India&#8217;s biggest solar power producer and top coal-fired generator, said it would build a 100-200 MW solar farm in Moranbah in the east of Australia, one of the towns worst hit by the global slump in coal mining over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is due to begin in mid-2017 and is expected to take about a year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the green groups that has long fought Adani&#8217;s planned Carmichael coal mine welcomed its expansion into solar power in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a sensible move that recognises the long term future of electricity production is in renewables,&#8221; Mackay Conservation Group coordinator Peter McCallum said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Adani Group said on Thursday it has secured land to build a A$200 million ($148 million) solar farm in Australia, the first part of a five-year drive to construct 1,500 megawatts of solar energy plants in the country. The solar push comes as Adani continues to battle opposition to its plans to build a $7 billion coal mine in Australia, a project that has been long-delayed due to a string of environmental lawsuits. Adani, India&#8217;s biggest solar power producer and top coal-fired generator, said it would build a 100-200 MW solar farm in Moranbah in the east of Australia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91695","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}