{"id":550017,"date":"2023-01-25T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550017"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:55:25","slug":"clean-energy-gains-a-foothold-in-india-but-coal-still-rules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/clean-energy-gains-a-foothold-in-india-but-coal-still-rules-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy gains a foothold in India, but coal still rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For six years, Pravinbhai Parmar\u2019s farm in Gujarat state in western India has been lined with rice, wheat and solar panels. The 36-year-old is among a handful of farmers in his native Dhundi village who have been using solar power to irrigate crops. \u201cI was spending nearly 50,000 rupees ($615) every year to water my crops,\u201d said Parmar. \u201c <\/p>\n<p>With solar I spend nothing.\u201d Parmar also sells the excess electricity to his state\u2019s grid, earning an average of 4,000 rupees ($50) a month. \u201cIt\u2019s a win-win in every way,\u201d he said. Thousands of farmers have been encouraged to take up solar power for irrigation in the agriculture-rich state as India aims to reach \u2018net zero\u2019 by 2070.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For six years, Pravinbhai Parmar\u2019s farm in Gujarat state in western India has been lined with rice, wheat and solar panels. The 36-year-old is among a handful of farmers in his native Dhundi village who have been using solar power to irrigate crops. \u201cI was spending nearly 50,000 rupees ($615) every year to water my crops,\u201d said Parmar. \u201c With solar I spend nothing.\u201d Parmar also sells the excess electricity to his state\u2019s grid, earning an average of 4,000 rupees ($50) a month. \u201cIt\u2019s a win-win in every way,\u201d he said. Thousands of farmers have been encouraged to take up [&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-550017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550017","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=550017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}