{"id":340129,"date":"2020-03-03T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340129"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:16:33","slug":"tangedco-open-to-reviewing-need-for-new-coal-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tangedco-open-to-reviewing-need-for-new-coal-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangedco open to reviewing need for new coal projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu\u2019s state-owned electricity generation and distribution company, Tangedco, is open to reviewing the need for new coal-fired projects, if there is a clear trend showing that the cost of energy from \u2018solar plus storage\u2019 plants is lesser than that of coal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are collecting data. If the trends show clearly that RE+storage is cost effective, the government may have to review new coal projects,\u201d a senior official of Tangedco told BusinessLine. <\/p>\n<p>Recent capacity auctions show the beginning of such a trend. In January, the government of India-owned SECI closed a tender to purchase electricity from RE+storage plants wherein the bidders could quote different prices for peak and non-peak time power supplies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu\u2019s state-owned electricity generation and distribution company, Tangedco, is open to reviewing the need for new coal-fired projects, if there is a clear trend showing that the cost of energy from \u2018solar plus storage\u2019 plants is lesser than that of coal. \u201cWe are collecting data. If the trends show clearly that RE+storage is cost effective, the government may have to review new coal projects,\u201d a senior official of Tangedco told BusinessLine. Recent capacity auctions show the beginning of such a trend. In January, the government of India-owned SECI closed a tender to purchase electricity from RE+storage plants wherein the [&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-340129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340129","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=340129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}