{"id":28381,"date":"2015-08-12T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=28381"},"modified":"2015-08-12T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T11:43:09","slug":"west-bengal-government-seeks-40-grant-for-1000-mw-turga-pumped-storage-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/west-bengal-government-seeks-40-grant-for-1000-mw-turga-pumped-storage-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal government seeks 40% grant for 1,000 MW Turga pumped storage plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has sought 40 per cent grant for Turga pumped storage hydel power project at Purulia under clean energy fund. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have sought 40 per cent of the cost from clean energy fund. It will be as grant,&#8221; West Bengal Minister for Power Manish Gupta told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has already written to the Power Ministry for the grant approval for Turga project, it being innovative and promoting clean energy mission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>After Power Ministry, the proposal has to be approved by Finance Ministry for disbursal, he added. <\/p>\n<p>Pumped storage plants, the minister said, have been recognised as innovative. <\/p>\n<p>West Bengal State Electricity Corporation already operates one pump storage hydel project in Purulia. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, West Bengal is seeking a green energy fund to build two pump storage hydel power plants in Purulia-Turga (1,000 MW) and Bandhu (900 MW). <\/p>\n<p>The state is also planning to set up a 1,200-MW solar power plant to support these two hydel power plants. <\/p>\n<p>The combined project cost is Rs 17,000 crore, Gupta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has sought 40 per cent grant for Turga pumped storage hydel power project at Purulia under clean energy fund. &#8220;We have sought 40 per cent of the cost from clean energy fund. It will be as grant,&#8221; West Bengal Minister for Power Manish Gupta told PTI. &#8220;West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has already written to the Power Ministry for the grant approval for Turga project, it being innovative and promoting clean energy mission,&#8221; he said. After Power Ministry, the proposal has to be approved by Finance Ministry for disbursal, he added. Pumped storage plants, the minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}