{"id":24671,"date":"2020-07-10T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24671"},"modified":"2020-07-10T06:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:32:58","slug":"pm-to-dedicate-to-the-nation-the-750-mw-rewa-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-to-dedicate-to-the-nation-the-750-mw-rewa-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"PM to dedicate to the nation the 750 MW Rewa Solar Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has dedicated to the nation the 750 MW Solar Project set up at Rewa, Madhya Pradesh on July 10, 2020. This Project comprises of three solar generating units of 250 MW each located on a 500 hectare plot of land situated inside a Solar Park (total area 1500 hectare).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Solar Park was developed by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited (RUMSL), a Joint Venture Company of Madhya Pradesh UrjaVikas Nigam Limited (MPUVN), and Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a Central Public Sector Undertaking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rewa Solar Project is an example of the excellent results that can be achieved if there is synergy between Central and State Governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will reduce carbon emission equivalent to approx. 15 lakh ton of CO2 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rewa Project has been acknowledged in India and abroad for its robust project structuring and innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its payment security mechanism for reducing risks to power developers has been recommended as a model to other States by MNRE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also received World Bank Group President\u2019s Award for innovation and excellence and was included in the book \u201cA Book of Innovation: New Beginnings\u201d released by Prime Minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is also the first renewable energy project to supply to an institutional customer outside the State, i.e. Delhi Metro, which will get 24% of energy from the project with remaining 76% being supplied to the State DISCOMs of Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rewa Project also exemplifies India\u2019s commitment to attain the target of 175 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by the year 2022, including 100 GW of Solar installed capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has dedicated to the nation the 750 MW Solar Project set up at Rewa, Madhya Pradesh on July 10, 2020. This Project comprises of three solar generating units of 250 MW each located on a 500 hectare plot of land situated inside a Solar Park (total area 1500 hectare). Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":24672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[101],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-24671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-madhya-pradesh-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24673,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions\/24673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}