{"id":349401,"date":"2020-05-04T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349401"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T06:44:27","slug":"india-doubles-down-on-solar-gas-at-coals-expense-as-electricity-use-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-doubles-down-on-solar-gas-at-coals-expense-as-electricity-use-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"India doubles down on solar, gas at coal&#8217;s expense as electricity use falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI : India&#8217;s solar and gas-fired electricity generation rose in April even as overall power demand fell at the steepest monthly rate in at least thirteen years, a Reuters analysis of provisional government data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Solar-powered electricity generation rose 16.9%, accounting for a record 5.6% of the country&#8217;s total output, while gas-fired power output was 13.7% higher, an analysis of daily load despatch data from state-run power operator POSOCO showed. However, wind-powered electricity generation fell 11.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity generation from coal &#8211; India&#8217;s primary source of electricity &#8211; fell 32.3% to 1.91 billion units per day, the data showed, with its contribution to overall electricity generation falling to 65.5%, compared with an average of over 73.7% last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI : India&#8217;s solar and gas-fired electricity generation rose in April even as overall power demand fell at the steepest monthly rate in at least thirteen years, a Reuters analysis of provisional government data showed. Solar-powered electricity generation rose 16.9%, accounting for a record 5.6% of the country&#8217;s total output, while gas-fired power output was 13.7% higher, an analysis of daily load despatch data from state-run power operator POSOCO showed. However, wind-powered electricity generation fell 11.4%. Electricity generation from coal &#8211; India&#8217;s primary source of electricity &#8211; fell 32.3% to 1.91 billion units per day, the data showed, with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349401","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}