India's state-owned railway company Indian Railways plans to issue tenders for up to 3 GW of solar power capacity. The projects would make use of the company's unused land, according to Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal. The development would expand the existing plans Indian Railways has to install 1 GW of solar PV capacity and 200 MW of wind power generation across its land by 2020-21. India is already home to a number of large scale renewable energy projects, including one that will generate enough electricity to supply all of New Delhi in just two hours.
India's state-owned railway company Indian Railways plans to issue tenders for up to 3 GW of solar power capacity. The projects would make use of the company's unused land, according to Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal. The development would expand the existing plans Indian Railways has to install 1 GW of solar PV capacity and 200 MW of wind power generation across its land by 2020-21. The government-owned mining company NLC India, which is seeking to develop its position in the renewables sector, is expected to bid for the new contracts.