{"id":604606,"date":"2023-09-19T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T05:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604606"},"modified":"2023-09-19T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T06:54:13","slug":"india-to-burn-40-more-coal-with-new-plans-for-thermal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-burn-40-more-coal-with-new-plans-for-thermal-power\/","title":{"rendered":"India to burn 40% more coal with new plans for thermal power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going by power minister RK Singh\u2019s announcement that India will add another 25-30 giga watt (GW) thermal power on top of 49 GW coal-based units under construction, the country is set to burn 292 million tonne (MT) more coal annually on completion of these projects. <\/p>\n<p>About 3.5-4 MT of coal is used to generate 1,000 mega watt (MW) power at 65%-75% plant load factor (PLF), which is the Indian average. Considering 3.7 MT coal consumption for each GW, the new plan will mean that total coal usage will increase by 38% from current levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going by power minister RK Singh\u2019s announcement that India will add another 25-30 giga watt (GW) thermal power on top of 49 GW coal-based units under construction, the country is set to burn 292 million tonne (MT) more coal annually on completion of these projects. About 3.5-4 MT of coal is used to generate 1,000 mega watt (MW) power at 65%-75% plant load factor (PLF), which is the Indian average. Considering 3.7 MT coal consumption for each GW, the new plan will mean that total coal usage will increase by 38% from current levels.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604606","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=604606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}