{"id":555397,"date":"2023-02-14T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=555397"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:26:49","slug":"cea-notice-to-not-retire-thermal-units-hinders-renewable-energy-goal-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cea-notice-to-not-retire-thermal-units-hinders-renewable-energy-goal-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"CEA notice to not retire thermal units hinders renewable energy goal: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite India\u2019s thrust on renewable energies, a recent notice issued by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) of India to power utilities to not retire any thermal units until 2030 has alarmed experts who say that the move will have a retrograde effect on India\u2019s energy transition endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>In its January 20 notice, CEA said that \u201cthe country is witnessing huge energy demand post-pandemic which is projected to surge to an all-time high in coming summer of 2023 and beyond\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore the role of thermal fleets, including old thermal units becomes crucial in order to support renewable integration,\u2019\u2019 it said, adding that the Power Minister in a meeting held on December 6 \u201cadvised not to retire any thermal units considering the expected demand scenario and availability of capacity in future\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite India\u2019s thrust on renewable energies, a recent notice issued by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) of India to power utilities to not retire any thermal units until 2030 has alarmed experts who say that the move will have a retrograde effect on India\u2019s energy transition endeavours. In its January 20 notice, CEA said that \u201cthe country is witnessing huge energy demand post-pandemic which is projected to surge to an all-time high in coming summer of 2023 and beyond\u2019\u2019. \u201cTherefore the role of thermal fleets, including old thermal units becomes crucial in order to support renewable integration,\u2019\u2019 it said, adding [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555397","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=555397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}