{"id":273965,"date":"2019-05-13T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273965"},"modified":"2019-05-13T06:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T06:52:46","slug":"government-buildings-dampen-bengalurus-solar-power-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-buildings-dampen-bengalurus-solar-power-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Government buildings dampen Bengaluru\u2019s solar power hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Major urban centres around the world are embracing renewable energy sources to power homes and businesses, but Bengaluru is unlikely to feature in that hallowed list anytime soon. Since 2014, only 1,750 solar panels have been installed atop complexes in the city, with the least number of units coming up at government buildings.<br \/>\nThe dismal record is reflected in the data compiled by Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom), and it has complicated the utility\u2019s target of generating 1,200 MW of electricity through solar panels till 2020. To date, it has achieved only 106 MW.<br \/>\nResidential buildings top the list with 1,260 solar-panel units, followed by commercial establishments (226), industrial plants (118), and educational institutions (103).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Major urban centres around the world are embracing renewable energy sources to power homes and businesses, but Bengaluru is unlikely to feature in that hallowed list anytime soon. Since 2014, only 1,750 solar panels have been installed atop complexes in the city, with the least number of units coming up at government buildings. The dismal record is reflected in the data compiled by Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom), and it has complicated the utility\u2019s target of generating 1,200 MW of electricity through solar panels till 2020. To date, it has achieved only 106 MW. Residential buildings top the list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}