{"id":375535,"date":"2020-09-28T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375535"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:24:32","slug":"ntpc-proposes-to-stop-land-acquisition-for-greenfield-coal-based-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-proposes-to-stop-land-acquisition-for-greenfield-coal-based-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC proposes to stop land acquisition for greenfield coal-based projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a big change in its business strategy, the country&#8217;s largest coal-fired power producer NTPC proposes to completely stop land acquisition for green field thermal projects and rather look for reducing its carbon footprint through aggressive renewable energy push. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have taken the decision not to acquire any further land for green field thermal projects in near future and the focus will be on reducing the carbon foot print,&#8221; NTPC chairman Gurdeep Singh said in a statement to the shareholders at a recently concluded AGM. <\/p>\n<p>As part of its initiative to transform itself into a renewable player, NTPC has also decided to set up a separate green focused subsidiary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big change in its business strategy, the country&#8217;s largest coal-fired power producer NTPC proposes to completely stop land acquisition for green field thermal projects and rather look for reducing its carbon footprint through aggressive renewable energy push. &#8220;We have taken the decision not to acquire any further land for green field thermal projects in near future and the focus will be on reducing the carbon foot print,&#8221; NTPC chairman Gurdeep Singh said in a statement to the shareholders at a recently concluded AGM. As part of its initiative to transform itself into a renewable player, NTPC has also [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375535","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=375535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}