{"id":432451,"date":"2021-08-27T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432451"},"modified":"2021-08-27T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:31:25","slug":"8-technocrats-to-help-reliance-transform-into-renewable-energy-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/8-technocrats-to-help-reliance-transform-into-renewable-energy-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"8 technocrats to help Reliance transform into renewable energy giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mukesh Ambani has enlisted eight global technocrats, many of whom are advisers to governments, as part of a nine-member New Energy Council to enable Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL NSE -0.37 %) to pivot from its traditional oil-to-gas business into a green energy giant.<\/p>\n<p>The council will be headed by R Mashelkar, national research professor and independent director at RIL. It will include Alan Finkel, who led Australia\u2019s National Hydrogen Strategy and is a special adviser to that country\u2019s government on low emissions technologies; Rachid Yazami, a winner of the Draper Prize for engineering; Robert Armstrong, director of MIT\u2019s energy initiative; and Martin Green, known among his peers as the \u2018father of photovoltaics\u2019 for having revolutionised the efficiency and cost of solar cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukesh Ambani has enlisted eight global technocrats, many of whom are advisers to governments, as part of a nine-member New Energy Council to enable Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL NSE -0.37 %) to pivot from its traditional oil-to-gas business into a green energy giant. The council will be headed by R Mashelkar, national research professor and independent director at RIL. It will include Alan Finkel, who led Australia\u2019s National Hydrogen Strategy and is a special adviser to that country\u2019s government on low emissions technologies; Rachid Yazami, a winner of the Draper Prize for engineering; Robert Armstrong, director of MIT\u2019s energy initiative; [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432451","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=432451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}