{"id":439034,"date":"2021-09-29T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439034"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:57:52","slug":"why-arent-energy-psus-at-the-forefront-of-indias-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-arent-energy-psus-at-the-forefront-of-indias-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t energy PSUs at the forefront of India\u2019s energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, India\u2019s biggest private sector players have made ambitious clean energy commitments. Reliance NSE -0.75 % India Ltd announced clean technology investments worth Rs 75,000 crore; ArcelorMittal pledged Rs 19,000 crore for solar power; and Adani NSE -0.76 % Green raised Rs 9,570 crore in debt financing. Backed by India\u2019s billionaires, these announcements herald a new chapter of clean energy expansion in our country. But why aren\u2019t our energy public sector undertakings (PSUs) also at the forefront of India\u2019s energy transition? <\/p>\n<p>PSUs continue to play a vital role in India\u2019s energy sector and the wider economy. Energy sector PSUs account for seven of India\u2019s 10 Maharatnas \u2014 firms that have an annual turnover of more than Rs 25,000 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, India\u2019s biggest private sector players have made ambitious clean energy commitments. Reliance NSE -0.75 % India Ltd announced clean technology investments worth Rs 75,000 crore; ArcelorMittal pledged Rs 19,000 crore for solar power; and Adani NSE -0.76 % Green raised Rs 9,570 crore in debt financing. Backed by India\u2019s billionaires, these announcements herald a new chapter of clean energy expansion in our country. But why aren\u2019t our energy public sector undertakings (PSUs) also at the forefront of India\u2019s energy transition? PSUs continue to play a vital role in India\u2019s energy sector and the wider economy. Energy sector [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439034","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\/439034","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=439034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}