{"id":371499,"date":"2020-09-03T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371499"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:58:03","slug":"cstep-launches-tool-to-boost-solar-power-generation-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cstep-launches-tool-to-boost-solar-power-generation-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"CSTEP launches tool to boost solar power generation in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) on Wednesday launched a web-based tool that would use LiDAR-based aerial imagery to identify shadow-free rooftops in Bengaluru to help the government design policies to tap solar power at household level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Bengaluru city, BESCOM (Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd ) has set a target to achieve 1.06 GW (giga watt) through rooftop solar power by 2022. However, it has added only 140 MW (mega watt) rooftop solar capacity,&#8221; Jaymin Gajjar, Research Engineer at CSTEP said.<\/p>\n<p>CSTEP says installation cost for rooftop solar installation is around \u20b945,000 per kilowatt or \u20b94.5- \u20b95 per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) on Wednesday launched a web-based tool that would use LiDAR-based aerial imagery to identify shadow-free rooftops in Bengaluru to help the government design policies to tap solar power at household level. &#8220;For Bengaluru city, BESCOM (Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd ) has set a target to achieve 1.06 GW (giga watt) through rooftop solar power by 2022. However, it has added only 140 MW (mega watt) rooftop solar capacity,&#8221; Jaymin Gajjar, Research Engineer at CSTEP said. CSTEP says installation cost for rooftop solar installation is around \u20b945,000 per kilowatt [&hellip;]<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371499","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=371499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}