{"id":293630,"date":"2019-09-25T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T05:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293630"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T05:53:34","slug":"power-plant-upgradation-hinges-on-finance-technology-and-regulation-ge-powers-prashant-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-plant-upgradation-hinges-on-finance-technology-and-regulation-ge-powers-prashant-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"Power plant upgradation hinges on finance, technology and regulation: GE Power&#8217;s Prashant Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country&#8217;s thermal power generation capacities, which is roughly of 80-90 gigawatt (GW), calls for technological upgradation, there lies a dilemma for generating companies to make a choice between finance and technology. At a time when the regulators are pushing for public interest, the sector experts see a growing need for a right balance between technology, finance and regulations for the best consumer interest. <\/p>\n<p>India currently lags behind in the adoption of the new technology in coal-fired power generation. The existing power generation capacities in India are old and needed to be upgraded, modernized and new technologies applied to make them more efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country&#8217;s thermal power generation capacities, which is roughly of 80-90 gigawatt (GW), calls for technological upgradation, there lies a dilemma for generating companies to make a choice between finance and technology. At a time when the regulators are pushing for public interest, the sector experts see a growing need for a right balance between technology, finance and regulations for the best consumer interest. India currently lags behind in the adoption of the new technology in coal-fired power generation. The existing power generation capacities in India are old and needed to be upgraded, modernized and new technologies applied to [&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-293630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293630","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=293630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}