{"id":429280,"date":"2021-08-06T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429280"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T03:24:31","slug":"parliamentary-panel-asks-mnre-to-set-up-pilot-tidal-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/parliamentary-panel-asks-mnre-to-set-up-pilot-tidal-power-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary panel asks MNRE to set up pilot tidal power project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Parliamentary panel has asked the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to set up a pilot tidal power project in the country, preferably at a cost effective location like Gulf of Kutch.<\/p>\n<p>There are three main types of ocean energy &#8212; wave, tidal and ocean-thermal. The estimated potential of tidal and wave power in India are 12,455 MW and 41,300 MW, respectively while the potential for ocean-thermal has not been estimated till date, it noted. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ministry should set up one demonstration\/ pilot tidal power project in the country at the most favourable cost-effective location like Gulf of Kutch considering that the capital cost of a tidal power project is site specific,&#8221; Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy said in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Parliamentary panel has asked the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to set up a pilot tidal power project in the country, preferably at a cost effective location like Gulf of Kutch. There are three main types of ocean energy &#8212; wave, tidal and ocean-thermal. The estimated potential of tidal and wave power in India are 12,455 MW and 41,300 MW, respectively while the potential for ocean-thermal has not been estimated till date, it noted. &#8220;Ministry should set up one demonstration\/ pilot tidal power project in the country at the most favourable cost-effective location like Gulf of Kutch [&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-429280","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\/429280","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=429280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}