{"id":500913,"date":"2022-06-27T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500913"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T05:19:14","slug":"common-man-has-already-started-benefitting-from-use-of-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/common-man-has-already-started-benefitting-from-use-of-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Common man has already started benefitting from use of renewable energy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of renewable energy (RE) has already started benefitting the common man, including farmers, who \u2014 unlike in the case of conventional sources \u2014 don\u2019t have to pay any bills for solar pumps and solar feeders, according to Ravindra S Jagtap, Director General of Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA), Pune. In an interview with Omkar Gokhale, he talks about the agency\u2019s contribution to alleviating the power woes of Maharashtra, RE-based solutions for congested cities, and steps being undertaken to increase the production of renewable energy in the state. Excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>What has been MEDA\u2019s contribution in alleviating the power problems in Maharashtra?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of renewable energy (RE) has already started benefitting the common man, including farmers, who \u2014 unlike in the case of conventional sources \u2014 don\u2019t have to pay any bills for solar pumps and solar feeders, according to Ravindra S Jagtap, Director General of Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA), Pune. In an interview with Omkar Gokhale, he talks about the agency\u2019s contribution to alleviating the power woes of Maharashtra, RE-based solutions for congested cities, and steps being undertaken to increase the production of renewable energy in the state. Excerpts: What has been MEDA\u2019s contribution in alleviating the power problems [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500913","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=500913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}