{"id":647535,"date":"2025-09-24T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647535"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:59:25","slug":"the-sun-is-shining-on-thermal-power-companies-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-sun-is-shining-on-thermal-power-companies-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun is shining on thermal power companies. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal power companies\u2014long facing a negative outlook because of India&#8217;s clean energy push\u2014have seen their credit ratings improve in recent months, on the back of surging demand for short-term contracts for firm power, or electricity guaranteed to be available at all times.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2024-25, 79% of the thermal power companies covered by Care Ratings had a credit rating of A- or higher, up from 67% in 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal power companies\u2014long facing a negative outlook because of India&#8217;s clean energy push\u2014have seen their credit ratings improve in recent months, on the back of surging demand for short-term contracts for firm power, or electricity guaranteed to be available at all times. As of 2024-25, 79% of the thermal power companies covered by Care Ratings had a credit rating of A- or higher, up from 67% in 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647535","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}