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Indian Railways (IR) would set up 50-Mw solar power plant at Bhilai in Chhattisgarh.
Under an ambitious plan, railways had decided to set up solar plants on its vacant land and along the tracks. As a part of this initiative, 4.7 Mega Watt (MW) land based Solar plants have already been commissioned.
Railway minister Piyush Goyal informed that action had been taken for installation of solar power projects on unused Railway land at Bhilai in Chhattisgarh and Diwana in Haryana.
While the railways will have a 50 MegaWatt (Mw) plant at Bhilai, the capacity of Diwana plant in Haryana would be 2 Mw.
The minister said to further proliferate solar plants, IR had planned to install solar plants of 20 Giga Watt (GW) capacity by the year 2030 by utilizing its vacant land. To begin with, bids for 3 GW solar plants on vacant railway land parcels and land parcels along the railway track have already been invited.
A wind mill plant with a capacity of 103.4 Mw of had already been commissioned.
Most of the works are being done on Developer mode by private partners, in which Railways do not have to incur capital expenditure.
