{"id":535077,"date":"2022-11-09T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535077"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:06:43","slug":"power-psus-set-to-take-over-29-stuck-private-hydel-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-psus-set-to-take-over-29-stuck-private-hydel-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Power PSUs set to take over 29 stuck private hydel projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry is priming state-run majors under its wings to take over 29 hydel projects entailing estimated investments of up to Rs 2.7 lakh crore that are languishing with private developers.<\/p>\n<p>The projects have a combined capacity of 30,000 megawatt or roughly 7.5% of India\u2019s total installed generation capacity, and were awarded to private companies by six north-eastern states but have not made much progress due to reasons ranging from lack of funding to expertise, power minister R K Singh told TOI.<\/p>\n<p>The move underlines the Narendra Modi government\u2019s renewed thrust on hydel as part of its climate action strategy to achieve 50% of power from non-fossil sources by 2030 and make India net zero by 2070. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry is priming state-run majors under its wings to take over 29 hydel projects entailing estimated investments of up to Rs 2.7 lakh crore that are languishing with private developers. The projects have a combined capacity of 30,000 megawatt or roughly 7.5% of India\u2019s total installed generation capacity, and were awarded to private companies by six north-eastern states but have not made much progress due to reasons ranging from lack of funding to expertise, power minister R K Singh told TOI. The move underlines the Narendra Modi government\u2019s renewed thrust on hydel as part of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535077","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}