{"id":505495,"date":"2022-07-15T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505495"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:26:43","slug":"ntpc-co-fires-77k-tonne-biomass-at-14-thermal-power-plants-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-co-fires-77k-tonne-biomass-at-14-thermal-power-plants-official\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC co-fires 77k tonne biomass at 14 thermal power plants: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned power giant NTPC has co-fired 77,000 tonnes of biomass till date at 14 of its thermal power plants across the country, a company official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Company&#8217;s Director (Operations) Ramesh Babu made the remarks at a workshop organised in Chandigarh in association with SAMART (Sustainable Agrarian Mission on use of Agro Residue in Thermal Power Plants) on &#8216;Ex-situ utilisation of agricultural residue for co-firing in thermal power plants&#8217;, NTPC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The power ministry&#8217;s policy on &#8216;Biomass Utilization for Power Generation through Co-firing in Coal based Power Plants&#8217; issued in October 2021 mandates all thermal power plants in the country to use 5 to 10 per cent biomass along with coal for power production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned power giant NTPC has co-fired 77,000 tonnes of biomass till date at 14 of its thermal power plants across the country, a company official said on Thursday. Company&#8217;s Director (Operations) Ramesh Babu made the remarks at a workshop organised in Chandigarh in association with SAMART (Sustainable Agrarian Mission on use of Agro Residue in Thermal Power Plants) on &#8216;Ex-situ utilisation of agricultural residue for co-firing in thermal power plants&#8217;, NTPC said in a statement. The power ministry&#8217;s policy on &#8216;Biomass Utilization for Power Generation through Co-firing in Coal based Power Plants&#8217; issued in October 2021 mandates all thermal power [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505495","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=505495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}