{"id":565901,"date":"2023-03-27T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565901"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T06:13:20","slug":"now-bescom-to-harness-solar-energy-for-irrigation-pump-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/now-bescom-to-harness-solar-energy-for-irrigation-pump-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, Bescom to harness solar energy for irrigation pump sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a big push towards the use of clean energy, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) will soon harness solar power to energise close to 2.6 lakh irrigation pump sets (IP sets) across the state. While this will ensure an uninterrupted power supply to the farmers, it will also bring down the electricity supply company\u2019s dependence on conventional sources of power. <\/p>\n<p>The project is being taken up under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM\u2013KUSUM) scheme. Agencies will be selected to set up grid-connected distributed solar power plants at the substation level in Bescom jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big push towards the use of clean energy, Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) will soon harness solar power to energise close to 2.6 lakh irrigation pump sets (IP sets) across the state. While this will ensure an uninterrupted power supply to the farmers, it will also bring down the electricity supply company\u2019s dependence on conventional sources of power. The project is being taken up under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM\u2013KUSUM) scheme. Agencies will be selected to set up grid-connected distributed solar power plants at the substation level in Bescom jurisdiction.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565901","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=565901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}