{"id":406645,"date":"2021-03-24T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406645"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:11:07","slug":"coal-india-wants-to-take-part-in-solar-energy-auctions-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-wants-to-take-part-in-solar-energy-auctions-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India wants to take part in solar energy auctions: Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; Coal India Ltd, the world&#8217;s largest coal miner, could venture into solar wafer manufacturing and wants to &#8220;aggressively&#8221; participate in the country&#8217;s solar energy auctions, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coal as you know, we&#8217;re going to lose business in the next two-three decades. Solar will take over coal slowly as a major energy provider in the coming years,&#8221; Pramod Agarwal said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are just exploring the possibilities where we can invest in solar wafer production, nobody is (currently) there in the country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Agarwal also said its joint venture with state-run NLC India Ltd plans to invest around 125 billion rupees ($1.73 billion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; Coal India Ltd, the world&#8217;s largest coal miner, could venture into solar wafer manufacturing and wants to &#8220;aggressively&#8221; participate in the country&#8217;s solar energy auctions, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. &#8220;Coal as you know, we&#8217;re going to lose business in the next two-three decades. Solar will take over coal slowly as a major energy provider in the coming years,&#8221; Pramod Agarwal said in an interview. &#8220;We are just exploring the possibilities where we can invest in solar wafer production, nobody is (currently) there in the country,&#8221; he said. Agarwal also said its joint venture with state-run [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406645","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=406645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}