{"id":283933,"date":"2019-07-23T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283933"},"modified":"2019-07-23T06:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T06:09:49","slug":"green-energy-capacity-to-multiply-6-fold-in-10-years-cea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/green-energy-capacity-to-multiply-6-fold-in-10-years-cea\/","title":{"rendered":"Green energy capacity to multiply 6-fold in 10 years: CEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: India\u2019s renewable energy capacity will gallop ahead and multiply almost six-fold in the next decade, while the share of coal-fired plants in the energy mix will fall to 32% from the current 46% as growth in thermal generation will be far slower, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has estimated. <\/p>\n<p>Total share of non-fossil-fuel plants, which includes solar, wind, hydropower and nuclear, will jump to 65% of the total projected capacity of 831,502 MW from 36.6% of the current installed capacity of 356,817 MW, according to CEA\u2019s report on \u2018Optimal Generation Capacity Mix for the year 2029-30\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Coal will have a higher share of actual electricity generated because of consistent supply unlike wind and solar, which are erratic. But in generation also, coal\u2019s share will fall from 77% to 52% by 2030, it said. Electricity supply from renewable will increase four-fold to 36%, it said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: India\u2019s renewable energy capacity will gallop ahead and multiply almost six-fold in the next decade, while the share of coal-fired plants in the energy mix will fall to 32% from the current 46% as growth in thermal generation will be far slower, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has estimated. Total share of non-fossil-fuel plants, which includes solar, wind, hydropower and nuclear, will jump to 65% of the total projected capacity of 831,502 MW from 36.6% of the current installed capacity of 356,817 MW, according to CEA\u2019s report on \u2018Optimal Generation Capacity Mix for the year 2029-30\u2019. Coal will have [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283933","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=283933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}