{"id":596722,"date":"2023-08-09T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T03:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596722"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:27:14","slug":"govt-says-no-plan-formulated-to-phase-out-old-coal-based-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-says-no-plan-formulated-to-phase-out-old-coal-based-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt says no plan formulated to phase out old coal-based power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Tuesday said it has not formulated any plan to phase out old coal-based thermal power plants in the country. <\/p>\n<p>India has set an ambitious energy transition programme, which includes having 500 GW of renewable energy capacity, by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Sir, Central Electricity Authority vide an advisory dated January 20, 2023 suggested that no retirement or repurposing of coal-based power stations will be done before 2030 considering the expected energy demand scenario and availability of capacity in future,&#8221; Power Minister R K Singh said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Tuesday said it has not formulated any plan to phase out old coal-based thermal power plants in the country. India has set an ambitious energy transition programme, which includes having 500 GW of renewable energy capacity, by 2030. &#8220;No Sir, Central Electricity Authority vide an advisory dated January 20, 2023 suggested that no retirement or repurposing of coal-based power stations will be done before 2030 considering the expected energy demand scenario and availability of capacity in future,&#8221; Power Minister R K Singh said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.<\/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-596722","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\/596722","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=596722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}