{"id":479109,"date":"2022-03-26T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479109"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:06:11","slug":"thermal-plants-fail-to-comply-with-ngt-directive-amid-shortage-of-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-plants-fail-to-comply-with-ngt-directive-amid-shortage-of-biofuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal plants fail to comply with NGT directive amid shortage of biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Amid an acute shortage of alternative fuel stocks, thermal plant operators are unable to comply with the NGT orders calling for 5-10% usage of biomass pellets alongside coal for power generation.<\/p>\n<p>If one looks at the total quantity of coal that thermal plants in the state use, at least 3,300 tonnes of biomass pellets are required as an alternative fuel, but the total production is just a few hundred tonnes. The daily requirement of coal for five thermal plants in the state is 67,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>To improve the air quality in the national capital region, the Centre in October 2021 launched the Sustainable Agrarian Mission to use agri-residue in thermal power plants (SAMARTH), under which a detailed plan for ex-situ paddy straw management through its utilisation in coal-based thermal power plants was rolled out by the NGT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Amid an acute shortage of alternative fuel stocks, thermal plant operators are unable to comply with the NGT orders calling for 5-10% usage of biomass pellets alongside coal for power generation. If one looks at the total quantity of coal that thermal plants in the state use, at least 3,300 tonnes of biomass pellets are required as an alternative fuel, but the total production is just a few hundred tonnes. The daily requirement of coal for five thermal plants in the state is 67,000 tonnes. To improve the air quality in the national capital region, the Centre in October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479109","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}