{"id":649565,"date":"2025-10-18T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649565"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:01:53","slug":"bengalurus-power-utility-turns-dry-lakebeds-into-solar-parks-to-beat-land-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengalurus-power-utility-turns-dry-lakebeds-into-solar-parks-to-beat-land-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru\u2019s power utility turns dry lakebeds into solar parks to beat land crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: With soaring land prices and non-availability of govt land on Bengaluru&#8217;s periphery slowing the progress of the Kusum-C project, Bescom started converting dry and degraded lakebeds around the city into solar parks.<\/p>\n<p>Kusum-C, under the Centre-assisted Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan-C scheme, aims to provide daytime power to farmers by solarising agricultural feeders. Bescom plans to add 250\u2013300MW of solar capacity by Dec 2025. While the implementation has picked up in other districts under Bescom, the progress around Bengaluru was slow due to the high cost of land, particularly in Bengaluru Rural, where industrialisation and the real estate boom have driven up the prices, and the non-availability of govt land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: With soaring land prices and non-availability of govt land on Bengaluru&#8217;s periphery slowing the progress of the Kusum-C project, Bescom started converting dry and degraded lakebeds around the city into solar parks. Kusum-C, under the Centre-assisted Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan-C scheme, aims to provide daytime power to farmers by solarising agricultural feeders. Bescom plans to add 250\u2013300MW of solar capacity by Dec 2025. While the implementation has picked up in other districts under Bescom, the progress around Bengaluru was slow due to the high cost of land, particularly in Bengaluru Rural, where industrialisation and the [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649565","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\/649565","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=649565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}