{"id":284341,"date":"2019-07-25T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284341"},"modified":"2019-07-25T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T06:45:04","slug":"solar-power-will-soon-become-a-peak-load-source-of-energy-uperc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-will-soon-become-a-peak-load-source-of-energy-uperc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power will soon become a peak-load source of energy: UPERC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The viability of storing solar power using batteries and using the same power during peak times is increasing due to declining battery prices, said Raj Pratap Singh, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC), here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storing of solar power using batteries is already working in several countries. In Australia, they charge batteries using renewable energy like solar and the stored power is used during peak hours or when there are power outages,\u201d he told BusinessLine on the sidelines of CII\u2019s Green Power 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen all lights are switched on during evening, the load goes up and at that time solar energy is not available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The viability of storing solar power using batteries and using the same power during peak times is increasing due to declining battery prices, said Raj Pratap Singh, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC), here. \u201cThe storing of solar power using batteries is already working in several countries. In Australia, they charge batteries using renewable energy like solar and the stored power is used during peak hours or when there are power outages,\u201d he told BusinessLine on the sidelines of CII\u2019s Green Power 2019. \u201cWhen all lights are switched on during evening, the load goes up and at that time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284341","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}