{"id":310512,"date":"2020-01-15T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310512"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:33:42","slug":"tamil-nadu-seeks-rs-1200-from-centre-to-install-transformer-digital-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-seeks-rs-1200-from-centre-to-install-transformer-digital-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu seeks Rs 1,200 from Centre to install transformer digital meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) has sought Rs 1,200 crore from the Centre to set up transformer digital meters.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by state power minister P Thangamani called on Union power minister R K Singh and sought financial support to purchase four lakh digital transformer meters which will lower the transmission and distribution loss from 14%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to set up distribution transformer meters to bring down the average transmission and commercial loss from 14%. We need four lakh meters. We need around Rs 1,200 crore to change the meters and we sought support from the Centre,&#8221; said Thangamani.<\/p>\n<p>These meters will be installed on all transformers to check how much power is being supplied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) has sought Rs 1,200 crore from the Centre to set up transformer digital meters. A team led by state power minister P Thangamani called on Union power minister R K Singh and sought financial support to purchase four lakh digital transformer meters which will lower the transmission and distribution loss from 14%. &#8220;We need to set up distribution transformer meters to bring down the average transmission and commercial loss from 14%. We need four lakh meters. We need around Rs 1,200 crore to change the meters and we sought support from the Centre,&#8221; [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310512","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=310512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}