{"id":541829,"date":"2022-12-08T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=541829"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:45:05","slug":"maharashtra-can-benefit-rs-5700-crore-from-repurposing-old-coal-plants-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-can-benefit-rs-5700-crore-from-repurposing-old-coal-plants-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra can benefit Rs 5,700 crore from repurposing old coal plants: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repurposing some of Maharashtra\u2019s oldest and most expensive coal plants by using the land and some of the old coal infrastructure for clean energy and grid stability services can deliver Rs 5,700 crore in benefits, according to a.new analysis commissioned by research organisation Climate Risk Horizons. <\/p>\n<p>The research, by Dr Gireesh Shrimali, Head of Transition Finance Research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford, has for the first time quantified the costs and benefits associated with retiring and repurposing 4,020 MW of old coal units at Bhusawal, Chandrapur, Koradi, Khaparkheda and Nashik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repurposing some of Maharashtra\u2019s oldest and most expensive coal plants by using the land and some of the old coal infrastructure for clean energy and grid stability services can deliver Rs 5,700 crore in benefits, according to a.new analysis commissioned by research organisation Climate Risk Horizons. The research, by Dr Gireesh Shrimali, Head of Transition Finance Research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford, has for the first time quantified the costs and benefits associated with retiring and repurposing 4,020 MW of old coal units at Bhusawal, Chandrapur, Koradi, Khaparkheda and Nashik.<\/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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541829","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=541829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}