{"id":285491,"date":"2019-08-01T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285491"},"modified":"2019-08-01T06:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:59:25","slug":"kochi-sees-a-rise-in-takers-for-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kochi-sees-a-rise-in-takers-for-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi sees a rise in takers for solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Contrary to last year&#8217;s heavy rains, the Indian Meteorological Department recorded a 37 per cent rainfall deficit, as per the recent data. As the state&#8217;s electricity generation is largely hydroelectric, the lack of rains is proving to be a buzzkill. While the quest for alternative measures to generate electricity is higher than ever, the district, especially Kochi, is seeing a rise in takers for solar power.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data with the Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT), 1,856 kW of solar power was generated in Ernakulam district from April 2017 to June this year. &#8220;While this is on-grid power generated by over 250 consumers, 263 kW of solar power was generated off-grid by 222 consumers,&#8221; says an official with ANERT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Contrary to last year&#8217;s heavy rains, the Indian Meteorological Department recorded a 37 per cent rainfall deficit, as per the recent data. As the state&#8217;s electricity generation is largely hydroelectric, the lack of rains is proving to be a buzzkill. While the quest for alternative measures to generate electricity is higher than ever, the district, especially Kochi, is seeing a rise in takers for solar power. According to the data with the Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT), 1,856 kW of solar power was generated in Ernakulam district from April 2017 to June this year. &#8220;While this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285491","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}