{"id":648900,"date":"2025-10-06T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648900"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:25:23","slug":"virudhunagar-has-highest-solar-power-potential-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virudhunagar-has-highest-solar-power-potential-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Virudhunagar has highest solar power potential in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Virudhunagar has emerged as the district with the highest solar power potential in Tamil Nadu for ground-mounted projects, followed by Trichy, Tirunelveli, and Tuticorin, according to a report by the National Institute of Solar Energy, operating under the Union ministry of new and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The report pointed out that around 10% of the state&#8217;s wasteland can be harnessed for solar power generation, translating into an estimated potential of 204,765 MWp (megawatt peak: about 205 GW).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Virudhunagar has emerged as the district with the highest solar power potential in Tamil Nadu for ground-mounted projects, followed by Trichy, Tirunelveli, and Tuticorin, according to a report by the National Institute of Solar Energy, operating under the Union ministry of new and renewable energy. The report pointed out that around 10% of the state&#8217;s wasteland can be harnessed for solar power generation, translating into an estimated potential of 204,765 MWp (megawatt peak: about 205 GW).<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648900","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=648900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}