{"id":528804,"date":"2022-10-12T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T03:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528804"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T04:18:01","slug":"energy-rate-availability-among-short-term-challenges-for-india-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-rate-availability-among-short-term-challenges-for-india-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy rate, availability among short-term challenges for India: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy prices and availability are among the biggest problems facing the Indian economy in the near future, India&#8217;s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the challenges as external, she mentioned energy costs in the context of previously fulfilled environmental commitments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But at this stage, if natural gas is going to be beyond our means, obviously you&#8217;re looking at reverting to coal to an extent because you need the base level of electricity to be generated,&#8221; Sitharaman said. &#8220;And that just cannot be done only through solar or wind energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman spoke at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution in the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy prices and availability are among the biggest problems facing the Indian economy in the near future, India&#8217;s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. Citing the challenges as external, she mentioned energy costs in the context of previously fulfilled environmental commitments. &#8220;But at this stage, if natural gas is going to be beyond our means, obviously you&#8217;re looking at reverting to coal to an extent because you need the base level of electricity to be generated,&#8221; Sitharaman said. &#8220;And that just cannot be done only through solar or wind energy.&#8221; Sitharaman spoke at an event hosted by the Brookings [&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-528804","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\/528804","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=528804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}