{"id":297195,"date":"2019-10-21T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297195"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:30:26","slug":"tangedco-eyeing-to-rope-in-agriculturists-as-partners-under-kusum-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tangedco-eyeing-to-rope-in-agriculturists-as-partners-under-kusum-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangedco eyeing to rope in agriculturists as partners under Kusum scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnology has not just disrupted transportation and e-commerce sectors. Electricity is in for huge disruption,\u201d said Vikram Kapur, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco). <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting organised by the Planters\u2019 Association of Tamilnadu (PAT), he said \u201cTN fortunately has the highest installed wind and solar energy capacity. The State Government wants to triple the installed capacity of solar power from 3,000 Mw to 9,000 Mw. Though it seems a little far-fetched, it is still possible.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Thus stating, Kapur threw light on the Kusum (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan) scheme. \u201cSubsidy is available under this scheme; it is an opportunity for landowners and small farmers to invest in solar panels,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe can all partner with each other. It is yet another example of diversification.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnology has not just disrupted transportation and e-commerce sectors. Electricity is in for huge disruption,\u201d said Vikram Kapur, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco). Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting organised by the Planters\u2019 Association of Tamilnadu (PAT), he said \u201cTN fortunately has the highest installed wind and solar energy capacity. The State Government wants to triple the installed capacity of solar power from 3,000 Mw to 9,000 Mw. Though it seems a little far-fetched, it is still possible.\u201d Thus stating, Kapur threw light on the Kusum (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan) scheme. \u201cSubsidy [&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-297195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297195","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=297195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}