{"id":437541,"date":"2021-09-22T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437541"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:26:00","slug":"to-cut-coal-thermal-plants-told-to-use-paddy-straw-pellets-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-cut-coal-thermal-plants-told-to-use-paddy-straw-pellets-too\/","title":{"rendered":"To cut coal, thermal plants told to use paddy straw pellets too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To minimise farm fires and improve air quality in the capital, a central government panel has directed 11 thermal power plants within a 300 km radius of Delhi to co-fire 5-10% biomass fuel of their total coal consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest direction on September 17, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) asked them \u201cto initiate immediate steps to co-fire biomass-based pellets, torrefied pellets\/briquettes (with focus on paddy straw) with coal (up to 5-10%) in the power plants through a continuous and uninterrupted supply chain\u201d. The panel also ordered them to implement the direction without \u201cany delay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav chaired a meeting with representatives of power plants in the Delhi-NCR region and laid stress on using crop residue as a fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To minimise farm fires and improve air quality in the capital, a central government panel has directed 11 thermal power plants within a 300 km radius of Delhi to co-fire 5-10% biomass fuel of their total coal consumption. In its latest direction on September 17, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) asked them \u201cto initiate immediate steps to co-fire biomass-based pellets, torrefied pellets\/briquettes (with focus on paddy straw) with coal (up to 5-10%) in the power plants through a continuous and uninterrupted supply chain\u201d. The panel also ordered them to implement the direction without \u201cany delay\u201d. This comes after [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437541","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=437541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}