{"id":491558,"date":"2022-05-13T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491558"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:49:58","slug":"india-is-facing-a-major-power-challenge-demand-unlikely-to-fall-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-is-facing-a-major-power-challenge-demand-unlikely-to-fall-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"India is facing a major power challenge, demand unlikely to fall: RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power, coal and railway ministries face a &#8220;major challenge&#8221; in ensuring adequate electricity supplies with demand unlikely to decline, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh told ET\u2019s Sarita C Singh &amp; Vinay Pandey in an exclusive interview. Singh said the directive mandating imported coal-based plants to keep producing power might be extended beyond October and the ministry has facilitated finance to about 4 GW of stressed imported coal-based plants that are expected to be ready to operate in three-four days. Edited excerpts:-<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act on imported coal-based power projects. How do you ensure it gets implemented?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power, coal and railway ministries face a &#8220;major challenge&#8221; in ensuring adequate electricity supplies with demand unlikely to decline, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh told ET\u2019s Sarita C Singh &amp; Vinay Pandey in an exclusive interview. Singh said the directive mandating imported coal-based plants to keep producing power might be extended beyond October and the ministry has facilitated finance to about 4 GW of stressed imported coal-based plants that are expected to be ready to operate in three-four days. Edited excerpts:- The ministry has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act on imported coal-based power projects. How [&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-491558","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\/491558","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=491558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}