{"id":343226,"date":"2020-03-24T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343226"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:18:19","slug":"city-government-school-goes-completely-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/city-government-school-goes-completely-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"City government school goes completely solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Now, Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Ernakulam South, will be powered by solar energy. On Friday, the 30-megawatt solar plant installed in the school campus was switched on by the ward councillor K V P Krishnakumar. According to principal Nalina Kumari V, the solar plant was installed as part of the Cochin Smart City Mission project. \u201cThe solar plant can generate around 90 kW electricity if it receives direct sunlight for three to four hours,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Edwin Thomas, electrical engineer, Cochin Smart Mission Ltd (CSML), the maintenance and operation of the plant will be responsibility of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, which installed it, for five years. \u201cAs per the current daily usage by the school, only around 18 KV electricity is required,\u201d he said. Meanwhile, Shibu P Chacko, PTA president, said, \u201cExcess electricity will be released to the KSEB grid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Now, Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Ernakulam South, will be powered by solar energy. On Friday, the 30-megawatt solar plant installed in the school campus was switched on by the ward councillor K V P Krishnakumar. According to principal Nalina Kumari V, the solar plant was installed as part of the Cochin Smart City Mission project. \u201cThe solar plant can generate around 90 kW electricity if it receives direct sunlight for three to four hours,\u201d she said. According to Edwin Thomas, electrical engineer, Cochin Smart Mission Ltd (CSML), the maintenance and operation of the plant will be responsibility [&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-343226","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\/343226","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=343226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}