{"id":443252,"date":"2021-10-18T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443252"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T06:30:41","slug":"chennai-tea-seller-finds-solace-in-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-tea-seller-finds-solace-in-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai tea seller finds solace in solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Even as the country battles a huge power crisis and people find it difficult to cope with inflated electricity bills, 61-year-old S Dhamodharan is untethered. Reason: He has been making full use of the scorching sun into generating enough electricity to run his tea stall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t spent a single rupee on electricity bill in the last six months after I set up these solar panels,\u201d he says, pointing to the two panels in front of his stall inside the Mahindra Tech Park in Chengalpattu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Even as the country battles a huge power crisis and people find it difficult to cope with inflated electricity bills, 61-year-old S Dhamodharan is untethered. Reason: He has been making full use of the scorching sun into generating enough electricity to run his tea stall. \u201cI haven\u2019t spent a single rupee on electricity bill in the last six months after I set up these solar panels,\u201d he says, pointing to the two panels in front of his stall inside the Mahindra Tech Park in Chengalpattu.<\/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-443252","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\/443252","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=443252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}