{"id":471435,"date":"2010-03-25T06:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/indian-government-eyes-solar-power-for-cellphone-towers-to-cut-emissions\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:08:29","slug":"indian-government-eyes-solar-power-for-cellphone-towers-to-cut-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471435","title":{"rendered":"Indian government eyes solar power for cellphone towers to cut emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/25\/cellphone-tower_aZLaK_69.jpg\" alt=\"cellphone tower\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Solar energy to power cellphone towers could reduce emissions by 5 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government is expected to come up with a proposal that would require the telecom operators to convert their diesel-powered cellphone towers to renewable solar energy. The plan is expected to be a part of India\u2019s National Solar Mission, which aims to generate up to 20GW of solar power by 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>India has more than 500 million mobile subscribers and is still one of the two fastest growing telecom markets. Presently there are about 250,000 cellphones towers in the country, a number that is expected to rise substantially in the coming years. <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/24\/solar-powered-cellphone-towers-in-india-to-reduce-5-million-tons-co2-emissions-save-1-4-billion-every-year\/\">CleanTechnica<\/a> estimates that converting these towers to run on solar energy will save up to 5 million tons of emissions and $1.4 billion in energy costs each year.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/24\/solar-powered-cellphone-towers-in-india-to-reduce-5-million-tons-co2-emissions-save-1-4-billion-every-year\/\">CleanTechnica<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2010\/03\/24\/stories\/2010032462130100.htm\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Solar energy to power cellphone towers could reduce emissions by 5 million tons. The ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government is expected to come up with a proposal that would require the telecom operators to convert their diesel-powered cellphone towers to renewable solar energy. The plan is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}