{"id":306597,"date":"2019-12-21T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306597"},"modified":"2019-12-21T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:34:03","slug":"indias-net-coal-powered-capacity-additions-to-fall-short-of-target-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-net-coal-powered-capacity-additions-to-fall-short-of-target-study\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s net coal-powered capacity additions to fall short of target: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by US-based think tank Institute for Energy Economics &amp; Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has projected that the country&#8217;s net coal-powered capacity by 2030 would be lower than the government estimates. <\/p>\n<p>According to IEEFA&#8217;s prediction, India&#8217;s net coal-fired capacity by FY2030 is pegged at 230 Gw, implying an incremental addition of 26 Gw over the present nameplate capacity. The Central Electricity Authority&#8217;s (CEA) optimal energy mix by 2029-30 projects India&#8217;s coal-based capacity to be 266.8 Gw \u2013 a net addition of 64 Gw on the current installed capacity. CEA&#8217;s projection exceeds National Electricity Plan 2018 by 17 Gw. NEP had identified 49 GW of end-of-life capacity retirements, and capacity that should be retired due to age plus space constraints preventing the implementation of emission control systems on plant facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by US-based think tank Institute for Energy Economics &amp; Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has projected that the country&#8217;s net coal-powered capacity by 2030 would be lower than the government estimates. According to IEEFA&#8217;s prediction, India&#8217;s net coal-fired capacity by FY2030 is pegged at 230 Gw, implying an incremental addition of 26 Gw over the present nameplate capacity. The Central Electricity Authority&#8217;s (CEA) optimal energy mix by 2029-30 projects India&#8217;s coal-based capacity to be 266.8 Gw \u2013 a net addition of 64 Gw on the current installed capacity. CEA&#8217;s projection exceeds National Electricity Plan 2018 by 17 Gw. NEP had [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306597","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=306597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}