{"id":510825,"date":"2022-08-01T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510825"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:08:07","slug":"45-solar-panels-at-mohali-government-schools-yet-to-become-functional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/45-solar-panels-at-mohali-government-schools-yet-to-become-functional\/","title":{"rendered":"45% solar panels at Mohali government schools yet to become functional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been around a year since rooftop solar panels were installed at government schools in Mohali district, but around 45% of these are yet to become functional. The reason: These cannot be connected with the power supply lines of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) due to pending electricity bills to the tune of around \u20b918 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 118 photovoltaic (solar) panels were installed on the rooftops of schools in two phases at a cost of around \u20b96 crore. Only 65 of these are functional as of now. The panels were installed by the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) under the on-grid solar net metering project scheme.<\/p>\n<p>PSPCL\u2019s Mohali circle superintending engineer Ashwani Kumar said, \u201cGovernment schools have not cleared the outstanding amount of nearly \u20b918 lakh. We cannot give them new connections unless they clear their dues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been around a year since rooftop solar panels were installed at government schools in Mohali district, but around 45% of these are yet to become functional. The reason: These cannot be connected with the power supply lines of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) due to pending electricity bills to the tune of around \u20b918 lakh. As many as 118 photovoltaic (solar) panels were installed on the rooftops of schools in two phases at a cost of around \u20b96 crore. Only 65 of these are functional as of now. The panels were installed by the Punjab Energy Development Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510825","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}