{"id":537474,"date":"2022-11-21T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537474"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:28:11","slug":"renewable-energy-storage-expensive-coal-gas-power-forms-base-load-at-present-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/renewable-energy-storage-expensive-coal-gas-power-forms-base-load-at-present-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy storage expensive; coal, gas power forms base load at present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister R K Singh on Friday said electricity generated from coal and gas forms the base load as round-the-clock supply of renewable energy is not viable at present due to expensive storage.<\/p>\n<p>The power minister while addressing a seminar on National Bioenergy Programme here also said eventually coal and gas-based energy will be phased out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBattery storage cost is Rs 10 per KWh. Solar power is Rs 2.30 KWh. You cannot have round-the-clock (renewable energy) without storage&#8230;You need some base load and that (base load at present) will come from coal, gas etc,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>About phasing out coal, he suggested that it cannot happen at the cost of  Rs 14 per KWh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister R K Singh on Friday said electricity generated from coal and gas forms the base load as round-the-clock supply of renewable energy is not viable at present due to expensive storage. The power minister while addressing a seminar on National Bioenergy Programme here also said eventually coal and gas-based energy will be phased out. \u201cBattery storage cost is Rs 10 per KWh. Solar power is Rs 2.30 KWh. You cannot have round-the-clock (renewable energy) without storage&#8230;You need some base load and that (base load at present) will come from coal, gas etc,\u201d he said. About phasing out coal, [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537474","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=537474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}