{"id":646401,"date":"2025-09-16T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646401"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:14:09","slug":"centre-announces-policy-to-tap-geothermal-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-announces-policy-to-tap-geothermal-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre announces policy to tap geothermal energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Monday launched its first national policy on geothermal energy, joining a growing list of countries betting on subterranean heat to power their clean energy transitions. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said the policy aims to unlock the country&#8217;s untapped geothermal potential through incentives and regulations. <\/p>\n<p>It also encourages repurposing abandoned oil and gas wells and deploying ground source heat pumps for heating and cooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Monday launched its first national policy on geothermal energy, joining a growing list of countries betting on subterranean heat to power their clean energy transitions. India&#8217;s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said the policy aims to unlock the country&#8217;s untapped geothermal potential through incentives and regulations. It also encourages repurposing abandoned oil and gas wells and deploying ground source heat pumps for heating and cooling.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646401","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\/646401","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=646401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}