{"id":649110,"date":"2025-10-08T09:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649110"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:36:42","slug":"indian-states-sign-more-coal-power-deals-to-meet-rising-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-states-sign-more-coal-power-deals-to-meet-rising-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian state electricity distributors are signing long-term contracts with coal-fired power generators to meet a projected surge in evening demand, despite the country&#8217;s efforts to expand clean energy capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh, India&#8217;s most populous state, and eastern Assam state, which recently withdrew incentives for clean energy projects, are looking to sign purchase deals in the next two months for at least 7 gigawatts of coal-fired power, collectively, to be delivered in 2030, bid documents reviewed by Reuters show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian state electricity distributors are signing long-term contracts with coal-fired power generators to meet a projected surge in evening demand, despite the country&#8217;s efforts to expand clean energy capacity. Uttar Pradesh, India&#8217;s most populous state, and eastern Assam state, which recently withdrew incentives for clean energy projects, are looking to sign purchase deals in the next two months for at least 7 gigawatts of coal-fired power, collectively, to be delivered in 2030, bid documents reviewed by Reuters show.<\/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-649110","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\/649110","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=649110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}