{"id":499064,"date":"2022-06-18T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499064"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T04:15:03","slug":"tn-to-gain-rs-4000-cr-by-repurposing-old-coal-units-for-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tn-to-gain-rs-4000-cr-by-repurposing-old-coal-units-for-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"TN to gain Rs 4,000 cr by repurposing old coal units for clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Tamil Nadu government set to increase its renewable focus as its thermal plants get phased out one by one as they turn 25 years old, a study indicates that retiring four coal-based power plants with a combined capacity of 3,990 mega watt (Mw) and repurposing them for clean energy and grid stability services can deliver Rs 4,000 crore to the state in benefits. At the same time, it can bring stability to the state\u2019s electricity system.<\/p>\n<p>The study by research organisation Climate Risk Horizons has quantified the costs and benefits associated with retiring 3,990 Mw of old coal plants&#8211; Tuticorin I, II &amp; III (1,050 Mw), Mettur I &amp; II (840 Mw), North Chennai Stage-I (630 Mw) and NLC-II Stage-I (1,470 Mw).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Tamil Nadu government set to increase its renewable focus as its thermal plants get phased out one by one as they turn 25 years old, a study indicates that retiring four coal-based power plants with a combined capacity of 3,990 mega watt (Mw) and repurposing them for clean energy and grid stability services can deliver Rs 4,000 crore to the state in benefits. At the same time, it can bring stability to the state\u2019s electricity system. The study by research organisation Climate Risk Horizons has quantified the costs and benefits associated with retiring 3,990 Mw of old coal [&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-499064","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\/499064","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=499064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}