{"id":617869,"date":"2023-11-17T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617869"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T06:07:15","slug":"coal-based-plants-to-meet-much-of-incremental-power-demand-crisil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-based-plants-to-meet-much-of-incremental-power-demand-crisil\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal-based plants to meet much of incremental power demand: Crisil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plant load factor or capacity utilisation of coal fired thermal power plants is expected to improve 100 basis points to 65% this financial year despite strides achieved in renewable energy capacity addition, according to a study. <\/p>\n<p>Power demand is seen growing 5-6% and a large portion will be met by existing coal-based plants despite renewable energy accounting for 90% of the 34GW capacity adeed in the last two years, Crisil said in its report. <\/p>\n<p>In GW terms, this is a 9% growth in power capacities but on normative terms this is only 4-5% growth because renewables operate at 20% (for solar and wind) and 40% (for hydel) capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant load factor or capacity utilisation of coal fired thermal power plants is expected to improve 100 basis points to 65% this financial year despite strides achieved in renewable energy capacity addition, according to a study. Power demand is seen growing 5-6% and a large portion will be met by existing coal-based plants despite renewable energy accounting for 90% of the 34GW capacity adeed in the last two years, Crisil said in its report. In GW terms, this is a 9% growth in power capacities but on normative terms this is only 4-5% growth because renewables operate at 20% [&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-617869","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\/617869","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=617869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}