NEW DELHI: Under the Mukhyamantri Solar Power Yojana, Delhi government\u2019s flagship scheme launched in 2018, 146 MW solar capacity has been achieved in 2,900-odd installations that has helped reduce 500 tons CO2-eq emissions daily, Delhi power minister Satyendar Jain said.
\n\u201cImmediately after the AAP government came to power, the rooftop installations of solar panels began and has progressed with a significant pace. We have installed these panels in schools, markets, institutions and everywhere possible,\u201d a release quoting Jain stated on Wednesday.
\nIt added that the panels were also being installed at housing societies to facilitate common utilities like parking, lift, clubs and gym. \u201cThis initiative has reduced the electricity bill from Rs 10 per unit to Rs 1 in these households. Apart from this, the overall electricity bill of these societies has also reduced by 50%,\u201d Jain said.
\nAccording to the release, last year, 25% of the societies in Dwarka availed the scheme. It also explained that if any society wanted to install solar panels, Delhi government provided subsidy worth 30% of the cost of the plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Under the Mukhyamantri Solar Power Yojana, Delhi government\u2019s flagship scheme launched in 2018, 146 MW solar capacity has been achieved in 2,900-odd installations that has helped reduce 500 tons CO2-eq emissions daily, Delhi power minister Satyendar Jain said. \u201cImmediately after the AAP government came to power, the rooftop installations of solar panels began and has progressed with a significant pace. We have installed these panels in schools, markets, institutions and everywhere possible,\u201d a release quoting Jain stated on Wednesday. It added that the panels were also being installed at housing societies to facilitate common utilities like parking, lift, […]<\/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-302153","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\/302153","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=302153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}