{"id":336656,"date":"2020-02-10T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T05:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336656"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:59:23","slug":"solar-storage-tariff-spells-trouble-for-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-storage-tariff-spells-trouble-for-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar storage tariff spells trouble for coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: When solar power tariff dropped to Rs 2.44 per unit for the first time in May 2017, it set a record for cheapest electricity, busted the myth of renewable power being unaffordable and opened a Pandora\u2019s box for conventional power plants by challenging coal\u2019s dominance as the primary source of energy.<\/p>\n<p>In an eerie feeling of deja-vu some 20 months on, the latest auction of storage-based solar project with assured peak-hour supply may have driven another nail into the coffin for coal by setting a world record for cheapest solar storage power \u2014 with the added commitment of almost round-the-clock supply costing 8% less than thermal power to break the affordability barrier for storage-based energy solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: When solar power tariff dropped to Rs 2.44 per unit for the first time in May 2017, it set a record for cheapest electricity, busted the myth of renewable power being unaffordable and opened a Pandora\u2019s box for conventional power plants by challenging coal\u2019s dominance as the primary source of energy. In an eerie feeling of deja-vu some 20 months on, the latest auction of storage-based solar project with assured peak-hour supply may have driven another nail into the coffin for coal by setting a world record for cheapest solar storage power \u2014 with the added commitment of [&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-336656","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\/336656","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=336656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}