{"id":618738,"date":"2023-11-22T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618738"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:45:57","slug":"government-mulls-easier-lending-norms-for-new-coal-fired-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-mulls-easier-lending-norms-for-new-coal-fired-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Government mulls easier lending norms for new coal-fired power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is looking at easing lending norms for new coal-fired power stations as it doubles down on the most-polluting fuel to meet a sharp uptick in electricity demand, even as media reports on Tuesday said France and the US are preparing to propose a ban on private funding for coal at the forthcoming COP-28 climate meet. <\/p>\n<p>People aware of discussions in the power ministry indicate the requirement of PPAs (power purchase agreements) with distribution companies for lending to new coal-based power stations may be done away with to ease flow of funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is looking at easing lending norms for new coal-fired power stations as it doubles down on the most-polluting fuel to meet a sharp uptick in electricity demand, even as media reports on Tuesday said France and the US are preparing to propose a ban on private funding for coal at the forthcoming COP-28 climate meet. People aware of discussions in the power ministry indicate the requirement of PPAs (power purchase agreements) with distribution companies for lending to new coal-based power stations may be done away with to ease flow of funds.<\/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":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618738","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=618738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}