{"id":402576,"date":"2021-03-01T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402576"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:07:41","slug":"keralas-small-hydroelectric-projects-lose-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/keralas-small-hydroelectric-projects-lose-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala&#8217;s small hydroelectric projects lose their way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOZHIKODE: The power purchase bill of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) per annum is more than Rs 8,500 crore. The cumulative debt of the board as of February 1 was Rs 9,360 crore and its interest alone would come up to Rs 1,900 crore per annum. <\/p>\n<p>In such a grim financial scenario, small hydroelectric projects (SHEPs), which have less environmental impact, and low maintenance and establishment cost, can play a vital role in state\u2019s electricity production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOZHIKODE: The power purchase bill of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) per annum is more than Rs 8,500 crore. The cumulative debt of the board as of February 1 was Rs 9,360 crore and its interest alone would come up to Rs 1,900 crore per annum. In such a grim financial scenario, small hydroelectric projects (SHEPs), which have less environmental impact, and low maintenance and establishment cost, can play a vital role in state\u2019s electricity production.<\/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-402576","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\/402576","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=402576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}