{"id":344986,"date":"2020-04-03T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344986"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:05:42","slug":"why-indias-booming-power-market-is-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-indias-booming-power-market-is-bad-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India&#8217;s booming power market is bad for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s fastest-growing open electricity market has to be a great place for energy investors, right? Not when it\u2019s India.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s ambition to electrify every village in the country has led to surging demand for grid power. Over the five years through 2018, India added output equivalent to 50 nuclear power stations, accounting for 13% of the increase in generation worldwide (China, where almost all of the power industry is state-controlled, made up 53%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s fastest-growing open electricity market has to be a great place for energy investors, right? Not when it\u2019s India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s ambition to electrify every village in the country has led to surging demand for grid power. Over the five years through 2018, India added output equivalent to 50 nuclear power stations, accounting for 13% of the increase in generation worldwide (China, where almost all of the power industry is state-controlled, made up 53%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-344986","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\/344986","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}