{"id":660795,"date":"2026-05-23T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660795"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:35:56","slug":"uttarakhand-governments-solar-push-cuts-department-power-bill-from-%e2%82%b91-2-lakh-to-%e2%82%b91700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarakhand-governments-solar-push-cuts-department-power-bill-from-%e2%82%b91-2-lakh-to-%e2%82%b91700\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand government\u2019s solar push cuts department power bill from \u20b91.2 lakh to \u20b91,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttarakhand government\u2019s push towards renewable energy is beginning to show measurable results, with the state\u2019s Information and Public Relations Department reporting a sharp fall in electricity costs after adopting rooftop solar infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the department\u2019s monthly electricity bill dropped to around \u20b91,700 in April 2026 from nearly \u20b91.2 lakh earlier after a 70-kilowatt rooftop solar power plant was installed at its headquarters in Raipur, Dehradun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttarakhand government\u2019s push towards renewable energy is beginning to show measurable results, with the state\u2019s Information and Public Relations Department reporting a sharp fall in electricity costs after adopting rooftop solar infrastructure. Officials said the department\u2019s monthly electricity bill dropped to around \u20b91,700 in April 2026 from nearly \u20b91.2 lakh earlier after a 70-kilowatt rooftop solar power plant was installed at its headquarters in Raipur, Dehradun.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660795","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=660795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}