{"id":362494,"date":"2020-07-13T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362494"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:47:10","slug":"edf-mckinsey-bcg-deloitte-among-others-eyeing-indias-global-power-grid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/edf-mckinsey-bcg-deloitte-among-others-eyeing-indias-global-power-grid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF, McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte among others eyeing India\u2019s global power grid plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Around 30 firms, including French government-owned power utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) and consulting firms such as McKinsey and Co., Boston Consulting Group (BCG), AT Kearney, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have separately evinced interest in helping India firm up its ambitious global electricity grid plan, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019 global grid plans have gained traction in the backdrop of China\u2019s attempt to co-opt countries into its ambitious One Belt One Road initiative that seeks to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects including railways, ports and power grids across Asia, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The who\u2019s who of consulting and electricity sector are interested in participating in a request for proposal (RFP) called by India\u2019s ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) to develop a long-term roadmap for the \u2018One Sun One World One Grid\u2019 (OSOWOG), that comprises a technical and financial proposal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Around 30 firms, including French government-owned power utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) and consulting firms such as McKinsey and Co., Boston Consulting Group (BCG), AT Kearney, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have separately evinced interest in helping India firm up its ambitious global electricity grid plan, said two people aware of the development. India\u2019 global grid plans have gained traction in the backdrop of China\u2019s attempt to co-opt countries into its ambitious One Belt One Road initiative that seeks to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects including railways, ports and power grids across Asia, Africa and Europe. [&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-362494","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\/362494","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=362494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}