{"id":442626,"date":"2021-10-14T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442626"},"modified":"2021-10-14T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:45:26","slug":"view-solar-installation-surge-puts-india-on-track-to-cap-coal-fired-power-as-early-as-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/view-solar-installation-surge-puts-india-on-track-to-cap-coal-fired-power-as-early-as-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"View: Solar installation surge puts India on track to cap coal-fired power as early as 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If India keeps installing solar capacity at the rate it&#8217;s achieved for the last three months, coal-fired power could peak in the 2023-24 Financial Year, and increased solar generation alone could meet the country&#8217;s growing electricity requirements in subsequent years.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand has surged and slumped in recent months as the economy revives in fits and starts, but the fact is that coal-fired power is increasingly sensitive to the performance of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Coal has effectively become India&#8217;s swing producer of electricity, rising to new peaks in periods when demand is high and renewable power low, but slumping deeply when demand falls and renewable energy&#8217;s contribution rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If India keeps installing solar capacity at the rate it&#8217;s achieved for the last three months, coal-fired power could peak in the 2023-24 Financial Year, and increased solar generation alone could meet the country&#8217;s growing electricity requirements in subsequent years. India&#8217;s electricity demand has surged and slumped in recent months as the economy revives in fits and starts, but the fact is that coal-fired power is increasingly sensitive to the performance of renewable energy. Coal has effectively become India&#8217;s swing producer of electricity, rising to new peaks in periods when demand is high and renewable power low, but slumping deeply [&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-442626","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\/442626","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=442626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}