{"id":527332,"date":"2022-10-06T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527332"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:12:51","slug":"thermal-plants-not-co-firing-enough-biomass-likely-to-face-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-plants-not-co-firing-enough-biomass-likely-to-face-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal plants not co-firing enough biomass likely to face penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central government has suggested the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) consider penalising thermal power plants (TPPs) that are not taking enough steps to curb emissions and not co-firing sufficient quantities of biomass.<\/p>\n<p>The power ministry would also consider reducing coal supply to TPPs not complying with its policy on biomass co-firing, according to a Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) statement released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Power Minister R K Singh co-chaired the inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of biomass co-firing in thermal power plants on Monday. They noted that the target of co-firing 5 per cent of biomass with coal in TPPs was still far off despite guidelines mandating them to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government has suggested the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) consider penalising thermal power plants (TPPs) that are not taking enough steps to curb emissions and not co-firing sufficient quantities of biomass. The power ministry would also consider reducing coal supply to TPPs not complying with its policy on biomass co-firing, according to a Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) statement released on Monday. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Power Minister R K Singh co-chaired the inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of biomass co-firing in thermal power plants on Monday. They noted that the target [&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-527332","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\/527332","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=527332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}