{"id":563756,"date":"2023-03-20T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563756"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:04:28","slug":"year-end-deadlines-for-coal-based-plants-to-use-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/year-end-deadlines-for-coal-based-plants-to-use-biomass\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-end deadlines for coal-based plants to use biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre\u2019s Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has said that coal-based power plants must target 5% co-firing of biomass and straw pellets by September 30 this year and increase the target to 10% by December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitiate immediate steps to co-fire biomass-based pellets (with focus on paddy straw utilisation) with coal through a continuous and uninterrupted supply chain targeting at least 5% co-firing of biomass pellets, latest by September 30, 2023, and at least 10% co-firing by December 31, 2023,\u201d the CAQM\u2019s March 17 order said.<\/p>\n<p>Co-firing or co-burning is a technique of burning alternative fuel, such as biomass, along with coal while using the same combustion technology in power plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre\u2019s Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has said that coal-based power plants must target 5% co-firing of biomass and straw pellets by September 30 this year and increase the target to 10% by December 2023. \u201cInitiate immediate steps to co-fire biomass-based pellets (with focus on paddy straw utilisation) with coal through a continuous and uninterrupted supply chain targeting at least 5% co-firing of biomass pellets, latest by September 30, 2023, and at least 10% co-firing by December 31, 2023,\u201d the CAQM\u2019s March 17 order said. Co-firing or co-burning is a technique of burning alternative fuel, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563756","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}