{"id":396356,"date":"2021-01-20T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396356"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:00:07","slug":"banasura-sagar-dam-boasts-of-powerful-run-with-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/banasura-sagar-dam-boasts-of-powerful-run-with-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Banasura Sagar dam boasts of powerful run with solar panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KALPETTA: The power generation through the solar panels of Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad is literally electrifying. A total of 10,72,768.1 kW power has been generated from the floating solar panels of the dam till December 2020. Another 99,210 kW was produced from the roof-top panels.<\/p>\n<p>First, the rooftop solar panel was commissioned in 2016 with a capacity of 440 kW. Three years later, floating panels were set up with a capacity of 10 kW. Later, it was enhanced to 500 kW. \u201cA total of 17 hollow concrete blocks of solar panels have been floating in the water. <\/p>\n<p>Three of them are of 23-m length and 15-m breadth. Other blocks are slightly small,\u201d said P Manoharan, assistant executive engineer (AEE) KSEB Thariyod Dam Safety sub-division. The highest quantity of solar power produced from Banasura was on February 17, 2017 \u2014 2,493 kW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KALPETTA: The power generation through the solar panels of Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad is literally electrifying. A total of 10,72,768.1 kW power has been generated from the floating solar panels of the dam till December 2020. Another 99,210 kW was produced from the roof-top panels. First, the rooftop solar panel was commissioned in 2016 with a capacity of 440 kW. Three years later, floating panels were set up with a capacity of 10 kW. Later, it was enhanced to 500 kW. \u201cA total of 17 hollow concrete blocks of solar panels have been floating in the water. Three of [&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-396356","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\/396356","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=396356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}