{"id":648693,"date":"2025-10-04T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648693"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:58:08","slug":"india-seeks-to-hasten-hydropower-approvals-to-reach-green-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-seeks-to-hasten-hydropower-approvals-to-reach-green-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"India seeks to hasten hydropower approvals to reach green goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will outsource geological investigations to speed up the approval of hydroelectric projects, including those meant for energy storage, a key part of the country\u2019s energy transition pathway.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Electricity Authority, which approves the construction of large dams, is seeking to hire external experts to speed up project design and help achieve the energy transition \u201cearlier than targeted\u201d, according to a note on the agency\u2019s website. Geological studies are currently carried out by various government agencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will outsource geological investigations to speed up the approval of hydroelectric projects, including those meant for energy storage, a key part of the country\u2019s energy transition pathway. The Central Electricity Authority, which approves the construction of large dams, is seeking to hire external experts to speed up project design and help achieve the energy transition \u201cearlier than targeted\u201d, according to a note on the agency\u2019s website. Geological studies are currently carried out by various government agencies.<\/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-648693","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\/648693","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=648693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}