{"id":521420,"date":"2022-09-13T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T05:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521420"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T05:31:20","slug":"less-alternating-more-direct-power-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/less-alternating-more-direct-power-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Less alternating, more direct, power plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power minister R K Singh has assured that Indian consumers will not have to deal with an energy crisis. A plan to build more coal power plants and revive gas-based plants while addressing issues of import costs and solar capacities, and encouraging industry to use renewables, all seem part of GoI&#8217;s plan. There are elements, some of which seem at cross purposes, but there is no articulation of a plan that sees the transformation of the electricity sector&#8217;s footprint from high carbon to clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power minister R K Singh has assured that Indian consumers will not have to deal with an energy crisis. A plan to build more coal power plants and revive gas-based plants while addressing issues of import costs and solar capacities, and encouraging industry to use renewables, all seem part of GoI&#8217;s plan. There are elements, some of which seem at cross purposes, but there is no articulation of a plan that sees the transformation of the electricity sector&#8217;s footprint from high carbon to clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-521420","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\/521420","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}