{"id":417139,"date":"2021-05-27T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417139"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:54:28","slug":"power-industry-seeks-relaxation-of-fly-ash-disposal-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-industry-seeks-relaxation-of-fly-ash-disposal-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Power industry seeks relaxation of fly ash disposal norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With demand for fly ash coming down from cement and brick manufacturing units, power plants have requested the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change not to impose financial penalties if they are unable to utilise all the fly ash produced from power generation.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal plants are supposed to utilise 100% of fly ash from the fourth year of operation. Over 25% of fly ash produced from power plants is used by the cement industry. Bricks and tile makers consume about 10% and another 10% is utilised for making roads and flyovers. More than 5% of the fly ash is used for the reclamation of low lying areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With demand for fly ash coming down from cement and brick manufacturing units, power plants have requested the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change not to impose financial penalties if they are unable to utilise all the fly ash produced from power generation. Thermal plants are supposed to utilise 100% of fly ash from the fourth year of operation. Over 25% of fly ash produced from power plants is used by the cement industry. Bricks and tile makers consume about 10% and another 10% is utilised for making roads and flyovers. More than 5% of the fly ash [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417139","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=417139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}