{"id":272179,"date":"2019-05-01T05:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272179"},"modified":"2019-05-01T05:48:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:48:30","slug":"power-capacity-additions-slow-down-in-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-capacity-additions-slow-down-in-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Power capacity additions slow down in 2018-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power sector, both conventional and renewables, witnessed poor capacity addition during 2018-19 after maintaining a strong momentum for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>While renewables added more capacity than the conventional power segments for the second year in a row in 2018-19, both have seen a significant fall in their new capacity addition compared with 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>The renewable energy sector added a capacity of 8,532 MW to the grid, just about the 55 per cent of its target of 15,602 MW for 2018-19. In the previous two years, the renewable sector added new capacity in the range of 11,000-12,000 MW per year, supported by a boom in the solar power sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power sector, both conventional and renewables, witnessed poor capacity addition during 2018-19 after maintaining a strong momentum for a few years. While renewables added more capacity than the conventional power segments for the second year in a row in 2018-19, both have seen a significant fall in their new capacity addition compared with 2017-18. The renewable energy sector added a capacity of 8,532 MW to the grid, just about the 55 per cent of its target of 15,602 MW for 2018-19. In the previous two years, the renewable sector added new capacity in the range of 11,000-12,000 MW per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272179","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}