{"id":542010,"date":"2022-12-09T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=542010"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:52:42","slug":"power-giant-ntpc-plans-nuclear-expansion-as-india-chases-climate-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-giant-ntpc-plans-nuclear-expansion-as-india-chases-climate-goals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Power giant NTPC plans nuclear expansion as India chases climate goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC Ltd., India\u2019s top power producer, is planning to build a massive nuclear fleet that\u2019ll aid the nation\u2019s push to shift away from coal and curb emissions to hit net-zero by 2070. <\/p>\n<p>The state-run company aims to install 20 to 30 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2040, according to a person familiar with the plans, who requested anonymity to discuss the private proposals and said the target remains tentative. India currently has 22 operational reactors with about 6.8 gigawatts of capacity. <\/p>\n<p>New Delhi-based NTPC is considering deploying small-scale modular reactors, known as SMRs, as part of the strategy, according to multiple people with knowledge of the company\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC Ltd., India\u2019s top power producer, is planning to build a massive nuclear fleet that\u2019ll aid the nation\u2019s push to shift away from coal and curb emissions to hit net-zero by 2070. The state-run company aims to install 20 to 30 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2040, according to a person familiar with the plans, who requested anonymity to discuss the private proposals and said the target remains tentative. India currently has 22 operational reactors with about 6.8 gigawatts of capacity. New Delhi-based NTPC is considering deploying small-scale modular reactors, known as SMRs, as part of the strategy, according to [&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-542010","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\/542010","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=542010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}