{"id":651838,"date":"2025-11-08T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651838"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:37:23","slug":"indias-rapid-renewables-rollout-vs-demand-mismatch-driving-up-power-costs-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-rapid-renewables-rollout-vs-demand-mismatch-driving-up-power-costs-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s rapid renewables rollout vs demand mismatch driving up power costs, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s rapid renewable energy rollout is straining grid operations and contributing to rising electricity supply costs as demand growth has not kept pace, a senior official at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s renewable power output rose at its fastest pace since 2022 in the first half of 2025. The country achieved 50% of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources earlier this year, amid its target of adding 500 gigawatts by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s rapid renewable energy rollout is straining grid operations and contributing to rising electricity supply costs as demand growth has not kept pace, a senior official at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said on Friday. India&#8217;s renewable power output rose at its fastest pace since 2022 in the first half of 2025. The country achieved 50% of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources earlier this year, amid its target of adding 500 gigawatts by 2030.<\/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-651838","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\/651838","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=651838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}