{"id":388231,"date":"2020-12-07T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=388231"},"modified":"2020-12-07T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:14:51","slug":"thanks-to-solar-plant-hubballi-airport-to-foot-power-bills-of-states-airports-from-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thanks-to-solar-plant-hubballi-airport-to-foot-power-bills-of-states-airports-from-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to solar plant, Hubballi airport to &#8216;foot&#8217; power bills of state&#8217;s airports from March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If everything goes according to plan, from March 2021, the Hubballi domestic airport will \u2018foot\u2019 the electricity bills of airports managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in Karnataka (except Bengaluru and Mangaluru international airports). <\/p>\n<p>According to Hubballi airport director Pramod Kumar Thakre, by March 2021, the city airport is expected to generate 140 lakh units of electricity per year through its eight megawatt ground-mounted photovoltaic solar plant being installed there.<\/p>\n<p>The power thus generated will be fed to the high-tension grid of the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) on the drive-wheel system and take credit in the electricity bills of all Karnataka airports managed by AAI. Once completely implemented, the airport\u2019s dependence on the external power supply will be reduced by at least 85% annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If everything goes according to plan, from March 2021, the Hubballi domestic airport will \u2018foot\u2019 the electricity bills of airports managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in Karnataka (except Bengaluru and Mangaluru international airports). According to Hubballi airport director Pramod Kumar Thakre, by March 2021, the city airport is expected to generate 140 lakh units of electricity per year through its eight megawatt ground-mounted photovoltaic solar plant being installed there. The power thus generated will be fed to the high-tension grid of the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) on the drive-wheel system and take credit in the electricity [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388231","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=388231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}