{"id":134570,"date":"2022-01-23T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/indias-richest-man-is-pouring-more-than-80-billion-into-green-energy"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:22:18","slug":"indias-richest-man-is-pouring-more-than-80-billion-into-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/indias-richest-man-is-pouring-more-than-80-billion-into-green-energy","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s richest man is pouring more than $80 billion into green energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-richest-man-is-pouring-more-than-80-billion-into-green-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is going big on green energy.<\/p>\n<p>His conglomerate, Reliance Industries, announced Thursday that it would allocate a whopping 6 trillion rupees (approximately $80.6 billion) to renewable power projects in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where it hopes to help generate a million new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of that money \u2014 about $67.7 billion \u2014 will go toward a new power plant and hydrogen system, the company said in a stock exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bseindia.com\/xml-data\/corpfiling\/AttachLive\/cb8fdd06-e6a4-4f6c-8a98-271dbbd5f807.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filing<\/a>. Reliance plans to make the massive investment over a 10-to-15-year period, and has already begun scouting for land for the 100-gigawatt capacity site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is going big on green energy. His conglomerate, Reliance Industries, announced Thursday that it would allocate a whopping 6 trillion rupees (approximately $80.6 billion) to renewable power projects in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where it hopes to help generate a million new jobs. The bulk of that money \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134570","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}