{"id":654799,"date":"2025-12-02T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654799"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:04:33","slug":"chandigarh-policy-billing-pangs-hitting-solar-energy-adoption-say-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarh-policy-billing-pangs-hitting-solar-energy-adoption-say-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh: Policy, billing pangs hitting solar energy adoption, say residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned over the city\u2019s slow progress under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, the Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting on Monday. Despite Chandigarh\u2019s status as a model solar city, rooftop solar systems have been installed on only 928 of the city\u2019s 43,000 residential houses, indicating sluggish adoption of the central scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, held at the Sangam Auditorium, MGSIPA, Sector 26, drew response from citizens, with over 80 members of residents\u2019 welfare associations (RWAs) participating. Both major RWA federations\u2014FOSWAC and CRAWFED\u2014joined the discussions, along with their presidents and senior office-bearers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned over the city\u2019s slow progress under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, the Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) convened a stakeholders\u2019 meeting on Monday. Despite Chandigarh\u2019s status as a model solar city, rooftop solar systems have been installed on only 928 of the city\u2019s 43,000 residential houses, indicating sluggish adoption of the central scheme. The meeting, held at the Sangam Auditorium, MGSIPA, Sector 26, drew response from citizens, with over 80 members of residents\u2019 welfare associations (RWAs) participating. Both major RWA federations\u2014FOSWAC and CRAWFED\u2014joined the discussions, along with their presidents and senior office-bearers.<\/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-654799","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\/654799","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=654799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}