{"id":659048,"date":"2026-03-06T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659048"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:44:16","slug":"paying-for-solar-irrigation-without-breaking-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/paying-for-solar-irrigation-without-breaking-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying for solar irrigation without breaking the bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For states that want to move farmers from erratic, subsidised grid power and diesel to cleaner solar irrigation, the hardest question is often not technical but financial: Who pays, when, and how do you keep the solution affordable without blowing a hole in the budget? Free or heavily subsidised electricity has become politically sticky; at the same time, distribution companies are under growing stress, and farmers still need reliable water. Any credible plan has to square these realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For states that want to move farmers from erratic, subsidised grid power and diesel to cleaner solar irrigation, the hardest question is often not technical but financial: Who pays, when, and how do you keep the solution affordable without blowing a hole in the budget? Free or heavily subsidised electricity has become politically sticky; at the same time, distribution companies are under growing stress, and farmers still need reliable water. Any credible plan has to square these realities.<\/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-659048","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\/659048","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=659048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}