{"id":8270,"date":"2026-03-07T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/07\/construction-130mw-solar-power-plant-ghazni-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:50:41","slug":"construction-130mw-solar-power-plant-ghazni-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/07\/construction-130mw-solar-power-plant-ghazni-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Begins on 130 MW Solar Power Plant in Ghazni Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breshna Company has announced that, in collaboration with Azizi Energy Company, construction of a 130-megawatt solar power plant in Ghazni province is set to begin. According to the company, this project is expected to be completed and operational within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>A press release from Breshna states that this power plant is part of the country&#8217;s renewable energy development programs. Officials have indicated that once completed, the project will help meet some of the electricity needs in the relevant regions.<\/p>\n<p>Breshna Company also announced the signing of contracts for 15 other solar power projects. According to provided information, the total capacity of these projects exceeds 700 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Afghanistan has faced electricity shortages and heavy reliance on energy imports. Expanding domestic electricity production, particularly solar energy\u2014which the country&#8217;s geographic location makes well-suited for\u2014could play a crucial role in reducing this dependence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction starts on a 130 MW solar power plant in Ghazni, Afghanistan, aiming to boost renewable energy and reduce power shortages nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}