{"id":610834,"date":"2023-10-17T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=610834"},"modified":"2023-10-17T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:30:43","slug":"impending-energy-crisis-brings-coal-back-into-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/impending-energy-crisis-brings-coal-back-into-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Impending energy crisis brings coal back into play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2070 and its national energy plan seem to fall further apart. The latest National Electricity Plan (NEP) envisages the installed capacity of coal-based thermal power to rise by 23% from the current level by 2022-23. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that an even higher reliance on the \u201cdirty fuel\u201d than NEP may be required to avert a serious energy crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The peaking and subsequent phasing out of coal-fired power may get delayed. This because of a sharper-than-expected rise in domestic demand for power, and the realisation that renewable capacity addition could lag the tall targets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2070 and its national energy plan seem to fall further apart. The latest National Electricity Plan (NEP) envisages the installed capacity of coal-based thermal power to rise by 23% from the current level by 2022-23. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that an even higher reliance on the \u201cdirty fuel\u201d than NEP may be required to avert a serious energy crisis in the country. The peaking and subsequent phasing out of coal-fired power may get delayed. This because of a sharper-than-expected rise in domestic demand for power, and the realisation that renewable capacity addition [&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":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610834","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=610834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}