{"id":117428,"date":"2020-12-20T02:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/india-is-building-a-green-energy-megapark-the-size-of-singapore"},"modified":"2020-12-20T02:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:09:29","slug":"india-is-building-a-green-energy-megapark-the-size-of-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/india-is-building-a-green-energy-megapark-the-size-of-singapore","title":{"rendered":"India Is Building a Green Energy \u201cMegapark\u201d the Size of Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-is-building-a-green-energy-megapark-the-size-of-singapore.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India just laid the foundations for what officials are claiming will be the world\u2019s largest renewable energy park. The gigantic project, in the Kutch region of western Gujarat, will cover an area of 180, 000 acres \u2014 an area roughly the size of Singapore, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/india-has-just-started-to-build-the-world-s-largest-renewable-energy-park\"><em>Agence France-Presse<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once finished, the park will produce 30 gigawatts of electricity from both wind turbines and solar arrays, thereby cutting carbon dioxide emissions by up to 50 million tons per year. For perspective, the protagonists in the 1985 film \u201cBack to the Future\u201d needed to generate a staggering 1.21 gigawatts of power to activate their time machine \u2014 and this new facility will produce more than 24 times that figure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hybrid renewable energy park will be largest in the world and generate 30, 000 megawatts of power,\u201d prime minister Narendra Modi said during the park\u2019s official inauguration, according to <em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India just laid the foundations for what officials are claiming will be the world\u2019s largest renewable energy park. The gigantic project, in the Kutch region of western Gujarat, will cover an area of 180, 000 acres \u2014 an area roughly the size of Singapore, as Agence France-Presse reports. Once finished, the park will produce 30 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}