{"id":279917,"date":"2019-07-03T04:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279917"},"modified":"2019-07-03T04:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T04:55:22","slug":"coal-to-dominate-india-power-to-2030-despite-renewables-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-to-dominate-india-power-to-2030-despite-renewables-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal to dominate India power to 2030 despite renewables boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal may account for half of India\u2019s power generation in 2030 despite a boom in solar and wind energy projects, according to analysis by the country\u2019s power-planning body. <\/p>\n<p>The assessment, released Monday by the nation\u2019s Central Electricity Authority, highlights that the nation has a large existing fleet of coal plants and that there\u2019s a mismatch between peak periods of demand and output from renewables. That will leave a big role for the most-polluting fuel in the nation\u2019s future electricity mix. <\/p>\n<p>The CEA\u2019s analysis shows that India may be able to exceed one of its 2015 Paris Agreement commitments &#8211; reaching 40% of installed capacity from non-fossil fuel sources. But the report also sees annual carbon emissions from the power sector rising about 12% from levels expected in 2022 to 1.154 billion tons. The report didn\u2019t include an assessment of what that means for another key India goal &#8211; cutting emissions intensity of gross <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal may account for half of India\u2019s power generation in 2030 despite a boom in solar and wind energy projects, according to analysis by the country\u2019s power-planning body. The assessment, released Monday by the nation\u2019s Central Electricity Authority, highlights that the nation has a large existing fleet of coal plants and that there\u2019s a mismatch between peak periods of demand and output from renewables. That will leave a big role for the most-polluting fuel in the nation\u2019s future electricity mix. The CEA\u2019s analysis shows that India may be able to exceed one of its 2015 Paris Agreement commitments &#8211; reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279917","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}