{"id":632576,"date":"2024-02-02T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=632576"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:46:24","slug":"govt-to-increase-coal-fired-capacity-in-2024-by-14-gw-power-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-increase-coal-fired-capacity-in-2024-by-14-gw-power-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to increase coal-fired capacity in 2024 by 14 GW: Power Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will start operating new coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 13.9 gigawatts (GW) this year, its power ministry said in a statement to Reuters, the highest annual increase in at least six years. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government has cited energy security concerns amid surging power demand and low per-capita emissions to defend India&#8217;s high dependence on coal. Power generation in 2023 increased by 11.3 per cent, the fastest pace in at least five years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next 18 months, about 19,600 MW (megawatts of) capacity is likely to be commissioned,&#8221; the power ministry said in a statement on Thursday. That will include the 13.9 GW likely to be commissioned this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will start operating new coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 13.9 gigawatts (GW) this year, its power ministry said in a statement to Reuters, the highest annual increase in at least six years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government has cited energy security concerns amid surging power demand and low per-capita emissions to defend India&#8217;s high dependence on coal. Power generation in 2023 increased by 11.3 per cent, the fastest pace in at least five years. &#8220;In the next 18 months, about 19,600 MW (megawatts of) capacity is likely to be commissioned,&#8221; the power ministry said in a [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632576","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=632576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}