{"id":518194,"date":"2022-08-31T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518194"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T06:38:15","slug":"coal-crunch-hastens-indian-metal-makers-switch-to-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-crunch-hastens-indian-metal-makers-switch-to-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal crunch hastens Indian metal makers\u2019 switch to green energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s metal producers are speeding up their transition to renewable power after a coal crisis led to a supply crunch and sky-high prices of the fossil fuel, according to Greenko Energy Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>GIC Pte.-backed Greenko, one of India\u2019s largest renewable energy companies, signed an agreement earlier this month with Hindalco Industries Ltd. to provide carbon-free electricity to the aluminum producer\u2019s Odisha smelter for 25 years, following a similar deal with ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Greenko is now in talks with two to three other metal producers for round-the-clock power supply, co-founder Mahesh Kolli said, declining to name the firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s metal producers are speeding up their transition to renewable power after a coal crisis led to a supply crunch and sky-high prices of the fossil fuel, according to Greenko Energy Holdings. GIC Pte.-backed Greenko, one of India\u2019s largest renewable energy companies, signed an agreement earlier this month with Hindalco Industries Ltd. to provide carbon-free electricity to the aluminum producer\u2019s Odisha smelter for 25 years, following a similar deal with ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd. Greenko is now in talks with two to three other metal producers for round-the-clock power supply, co-founder Mahesh Kolli said, declining to name the firms.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518194","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=518194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}