{"id":446710,"date":"2021-11-01T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446710"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:45:04","slug":"centre-proposes-to-amend-energy-conservation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-proposes-to-amend-energy-conservation-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre proposes to amend Energy Conservation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has proposed to amend the Energy Conservation Act of 2001 to enhance the consumption of renewable energy by industries by defining a minimum share of renewable energy to be used by them. <\/p>\n<p>The new rule also proposes to incentivise clean energy users by providing carbon saving certificates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The proposed amendments would facilitate the development of the Carbon market in India and prescribe minimum consumption of renewable energy either as direct consumption or indirect use through the grid. This will help in the reduction of fossil fuel-based energy consumption and carbon emission to the atmosphere,&#8221; the power ministry said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has proposed to amend the Energy Conservation Act of 2001 to enhance the consumption of renewable energy by industries by defining a minimum share of renewable energy to be used by them. The new rule also proposes to incentivise clean energy users by providing carbon saving certificates. &#8220;The proposed amendments would facilitate the development of the Carbon market in India and prescribe minimum consumption of renewable energy either as direct consumption or indirect use through the grid. This will help in the reduction of fossil fuel-based energy consumption and carbon emission to the atmosphere,&#8221; the power ministry said [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446710","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=446710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}