{"id":638098,"date":"2024-03-08T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=638098"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:37:51","slug":"transition-to-renewable-energy-could-save-bengal-rs-62000cr-over-next-decade-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transition-to-renewable-energy-could-save-bengal-rs-62000cr-over-next-decade-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition to renewable energy could save Bengal Rs 62,000cr over next decade: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal can save a significant Rs 62,000 crore over a decade by transitioning from thermal power to embracing renewable energy sources, a study by think tank Climate Risk Horizons (CRH) said on Thursday. This transition could also play a pivotal role in helping India achieve its net zero emissions target, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rising costs of coal-fired electricity underscore the potential missed opportunity in West Bengal&#8217;s focus on renewable energy. Correcting this oversight could yield substantial financial gains for both the state and its electricity consumers,&#8221; said Vishnu Teja, the analyst of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal can save a significant Rs 62,000 crore over a decade by transitioning from thermal power to embracing renewable energy sources, a study by think tank Climate Risk Horizons (CRH) said on Thursday. This transition could also play a pivotal role in helping India achieve its net zero emissions target, it said. &#8220;Rising costs of coal-fired electricity underscore the potential missed opportunity in West Bengal&#8217;s focus on renewable energy. Correcting this oversight could yield substantial financial gains for both the state and its electricity consumers,&#8221; said Vishnu Teja, the analyst of the report.<\/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-638098","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\/638098","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=638098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}