{"id":500435,"date":"2022-06-24T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500435"},"modified":"2022-06-24T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:13:15","slug":"ntpc-weighs-new-plants-as-coal-phase-out-must-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-weighs-new-plants-as-coal-phase-out-must-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC weighs new plants as coal phase-out must wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s state power giant NTPC Ltd. said it may have to add new coal power capacity to meet the country\u2019s surging demand for electricity, a policy shift triggered by recent energy shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too early\u201d to talk about a coal phase-out, Gurdeep Singh, chairman at the New Delhi-based power producer, said at the BloombergNEF summit in New Delhi on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take 2-3 decades, if not more.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s clear that the road ahead leads to a clean energy transition, but cautioned against knee-jerk closures of coal power plants. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, the first thing we have to look at is whether we\u2019re able to provide 24\/7 reliable, affordable power,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s state power giant NTPC Ltd. said it may have to add new coal power capacity to meet the country\u2019s surging demand for electricity, a policy shift triggered by recent energy shortages. \u201cIt\u2019s too early\u201d to talk about a coal phase-out, Gurdeep Singh, chairman at the New Delhi-based power producer, said at the BloombergNEF summit in New Delhi on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take 2-3 decades, if not more.\u201d He said it\u2019s clear that the road ahead leads to a clean energy transition, but cautioned against knee-jerk closures of coal power plants. \u201cAt the end of the day, the first [&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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500435","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=500435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}