{"id":561412,"date":"2023-03-09T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T03:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561412"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:58:58","slug":"india-faces-high-power-cut-risks-after-years-of-coal-hydropower-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-faces-high-power-cut-risks-after-years-of-coal-hydropower-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"India faces high power cut risks after years of coal, hydropower neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India faces a high risk of nighttime power cuts this summer and in coming years, as delays in adding new coal-fired and hydropower capacity could limit the country&#8217;s ability to address surging electricity demand when solar energy is not available.<\/p>\n<p>A rapid addition of solar farms has helped India avert daytime supply gaps, but a shortage of coal-fired and hydropower capacity risks exposing millions to widespread outages at night, government data and internal documents reviewed by Reuters show.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s power availability in &#8220;non-solar hours&#8221; this April is expected to be 1.7% lower than peak demand &#8211; a measure of the maximum electricity requirement over any given time, an internal note by the federal grid regulator reviewed by Reuters showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India faces a high risk of nighttime power cuts this summer and in coming years, as delays in adding new coal-fired and hydropower capacity could limit the country&#8217;s ability to address surging electricity demand when solar energy is not available. A rapid addition of solar farms has helped India avert daytime supply gaps, but a shortage of coal-fired and hydropower capacity risks exposing millions to widespread outages at night, government data and internal documents reviewed by Reuters show. India&#8217;s power availability in &#8220;non-solar hours&#8221; this April is expected to be 1.7% lower than peak demand &#8211; a measure of the [&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-561412","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\/561412","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=561412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}