{"id":635535,"date":"2024-02-21T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=635535"},"modified":"2024-02-21T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:52:14","slug":"in-a-first-centre-taps-private-sector-to-invest-rs-2-16-lakh-crore-in-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-a-first-centre-taps-private-sector-to-invest-rs-2-16-lakh-crore-in-nuclear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, Centre taps private sector to invest Rs 2.16 lakh crore in nuclear energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre will invite private companies to invest about $26 billion (\u20b92.16 lakh crore) in nuclear energy to increase the amount of electricity from sources that don&#8217;t produce carbon dioxide emissions, said two government officials who are directly involved in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the government is pursuing private investment in nuclear power, a non-carbon-emitting energy source that contributes less than 2% of India&#8217;s total electricity generation. The funding would help India to achieve its target of having 50% of its installed electric generation capacity use non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from 42% now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre will invite private companies to invest about $26 billion (\u20b92.16 lakh crore) in nuclear energy to increase the amount of electricity from sources that don&#8217;t produce carbon dioxide emissions, said two government officials who are directly involved in the matter. This is the first time the government is pursuing private investment in nuclear power, a non-carbon-emitting energy source that contributes less than 2% of India&#8217;s total electricity generation. The funding would help India to achieve its target of having 50% of its installed electric generation capacity use non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from 42% now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635535","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}