{"id":596666,"date":"2023-08-08T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596666"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T07:31:50","slug":"delhis-draft-climate-action-plan-aims-to-reduce-dependence-on-hydropower-from-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-draft-climate-action-plan-aims-to-reduce-dependence-on-hydropower-from-other-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s draft climate action plan aims to reduce dependence on hydropower from other states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Delhi prepares for the impact of climate change, the city government&#8217;s draft action plan proposes a reduction in the national capital&#8217;s reliance on hydropower from other states, taking into account potential future challenges to generation capacity due to changes in temperature and precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Delhi Economic Survey 2022-23, the total electricity procured by Delhi in 2021-22 stood at 37,460 million units. Of this, about 16.65 per cent came from power plants owned by the Delhi government. The rest was bought from the central government and other states.<\/p>\n<p>With climate projections indicating rising temperatures and intensified periods of heavy rainfall, the energy and power sector in Delhi faces a slew of challenges. Extreme weather events, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns pose threats to both infrastructure and supply security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Delhi prepares for the impact of climate change, the city government&#8217;s draft action plan proposes a reduction in the national capital&#8217;s reliance on hydropower from other states, taking into account potential future challenges to generation capacity due to changes in temperature and precipitation. According to the Delhi Economic Survey 2022-23, the total electricity procured by Delhi in 2021-22 stood at 37,460 million units. Of this, about 16.65 per cent came from power plants owned by the Delhi government. The rest was bought from the central government and other states. With climate projections indicating rising temperatures and intensified periods of [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596666","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=596666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}