{"id":489619,"date":"2022-05-06T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489619"},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T05:28:44","slug":"indias-dependence-on-coal-based-power-is-proving-to-be-very-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-dependence-on-coal-based-power-is-proving-to-be-very-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s dependence on coal based power is proving to be very expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing makes you appreciate air-conditioning like high summer in India. Here in Delhi, temperatures are running over 100 degrees for much of the day, with two full months still to go before the cooling monsoon rains arrive. Unfortunately, just as everyone decided to crank up their ACs or at least their ceiling fans, electricity supply collapsed under the strain in large parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>This is not, sadly, a rare occurrence. It happens almost every summer and on other occasions when power demand spikes. There\u2019s no clearer evidence that India\u2019s electricity sector, dominated by coal-guzzling power plants and state-run utilities, simply isn\u2019t up to the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing makes you appreciate air-conditioning like high summer in India. Here in Delhi, temperatures are running over 100 degrees for much of the day, with two full months still to go before the cooling monsoon rains arrive. Unfortunately, just as everyone decided to crank up their ACs or at least their ceiling fans, electricity supply collapsed under the strain in large parts of the country. This is not, sadly, a rare occurrence. It happens almost every summer and on other occasions when power demand spikes. There\u2019s no clearer evidence that India\u2019s electricity sector, dominated by coal-guzzling power plants and state-run [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489619","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=489619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}